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Among Penguins : A Bird Man in Antarctica
Overview
The year he graduated from college, twenty-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and three months? worth of frozen dinners. His subjects: more than a quarter million penguins. 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 below freezing ? 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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780870716294
- ISBN-10: 0870716298
- Publisher: Oregon State University Press
- Publish Date: April 2011
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.07 x 0.54 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.82 pounds
- Page Count: 224
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