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Item Details
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EMPIRE ANTARCTICA
ICE, SILENCE & EMPEROR PENGUINS |
| By: |
Gavin Francis |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1446484823 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781446484821 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 November, 2012 |
| Pages: |
272 |
| Description: |
Following the penguins throughout the year - from a summer of perpetual sunshine to months of winter darkness, this book explores a world of great beauty conjured from the simplest elements, the hardship of living at 50degreeC below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring. |
| Synopsis: |
* WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013 **Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Prize** Shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize ** Shortlisted for Banff Adventure Travel Prize ** Shortlisted for Saltire Book of the Year Award * Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the base-camp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in winter.Antarctica offered a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and very little human history, but also a rare oppurtunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in the Antarctic. Following the penguins throughout the year -- from a summer of perpetual sunshine to months of winter darkness -- Gavin Francis explores a world of great beauty conjured from the simplest elements, the hardship of living at 50°C below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award 2013 (UK)
Short-listed for RSL Ondaatje Prize 2013 (UK)
Short-listed for Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award 2013 (UK)
Short-listed for Costa Biography Award 2014 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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