A polar affair Antarctica's forgotten hero and the secret love lives of penguins
George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First Pegusus Books cloth edition. |
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| Summary: | George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history. A century later, Lloyd Spencer Davis rediscovers Levick and his findings during the course of his own scientific adventures in Antarctica. Levick's long-suppressed manuscript reveals not only an incredible survival story, but one that will change our understanding of an entire species. -- |
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| Item Description: | "September 2019"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | ix, 358 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | "Further reading: key references": pages 327-330. Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-348) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781643131252 1643131257 |
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