Counting Penguins How a Penguin Colony Stole My Heart and Changed My Life

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Title: Counting Penguins How a Penguin Colony Stole My Heart and Changed My Life
Author: Peter John Watson
Category: Travel, Polar Regions, Animals, Adventure & Literary Travel
Language: English | 304 str. Pages | ISBN: 9780241861387


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'A beautifully evocative book coursing with wisdom and humour... I loved it.' - HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk
'Anyone with a spark of adventure will enjoy.' - NOAH STRYCKER, author of The Thing With Feathers
'Antarctica has a special way of changing the lives of those lucky enough to experience it... Peter captures that magic.' - MATTY K. JORDAN, author of The Antarcticans
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At 64° South, on a tiny Antarctic island bustling with penguins, even the smallest lives leave a mark.
Welcome to Port Lockroy - the world's southernmost post office, a tiny outpost on a soccer-pitch-sized island off the Antarctic Peninsula, shared by a handful of humans and a thousand curious gentoo penguins.
When travel writer Peter John Watson boards a ship bound for Antarctica, he has no idea how deeply life at the end of the world will change him. Between long shifts counting penguin chicks, welcoming passing ships,...