Among Penguins: A Bird Man in Antarctica Paperback - 2011
by Noah Strycker
From the rear cover
The year he graduated from college, 22-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and a three months' supply of frozen food. His subjects: more than a quarter million penguins.
Compact, industrious, and approachable, the Ad�lie Penguins who call Antarctica home visit their breeding grounds each Antarctic summer to nest and rear their young before returning to sea. Because of long-term studies, scientists may know more about how these penguins will adjust to climate change than about any other creature in the world.
Bird scientists like Noah are less well known. Like the intrepid early explorers of Antarctica, modern scientists drawn to the frozen continent face an utterly inhospitable landscape, one that inspires, isolates, and punishes.
With wit, curiosity, and a deep knowledge of his subject, Strycker recounts the reality of life at the end of the Earth--thousand-year-old penguin mummies, hurricane-force blizzards, and day-to-day existence in below freezing temperatures--and delves deep into a world of science, obsession, and birds.
Among Penguins weaves a captivating tale of penguins and their researchers on the coldest, driest, highest, and windiest continent on Earth. Birders, lovers of the Antarctic, and fans of first-person adventure narratives will be fascinated by Strycker's book.
From the jacket flap
A twenty-two-year-old "rising star"--bird scientist and photographer Noah Strycker--recounts the drama of life--human, bird, and physical--at the remote Antarctic field camp where he studies Adelie penguins.
Details
- Title Among Penguins: A Bird Man in Antarctica
- Author Noah Strycker
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oregon State University Press
- Date 2011-04
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780870716294 / 0870716298
- Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6.07 x 0.54 in (22.61 x 15.42 x 1.37 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Arctic/Antarctic
- Library of Congress subjects Penguins - Behavior - Antarctica
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010049245
- Dewey Decimal Code 598.470
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Citations
- Library Journal, 04/01/2011, Page 103
- Publishers Weekly, 04/11/2011, Page 0
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