Description
My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors – A Journey of Discovery
by Lindsay McCrae
Paperback – 12 November 2019
Emperor penguins have the most extraordinary lifecycle. They march up to 100 miles over solid ice to reach their breeding grounds. They choose to breed in the depths of the worst winter on the planet; and in an unusual role reversal, the males incubate the eggs, fasting for over 100 days to ensure they introduce their chicks safely into their new frozen world.
MY PENGUIN YEAR recounts author Lindsay McCrae’s adventure to the end of the Earth, spending a year living alongside the most resilient creatures in nature. He experienced every aspect of a breeding emperor’s life, facing the inevitable sacrifices that came with living his childhood dream, and facing down the personal obstacles that, being over 15,000km away from the comforts of home, almost proved too much.
Review
My Penguin Year is an immersive insight into the life of a wildlife filmmaker and the challenges of surviving in the harshest, most unforgiving environment on Earth. – The Herald
About the Author
Lindsay McCrae’s passion for wildlife began at an early age. At school he built wildlife ponds and gardens, while evenings were spent watching a badger’s sett near his home in rural Lake District. His passion for watching wildlife soon turned into a need to capture what he was seeing on film. He took out a loan from his mother and invested in his own camera at the age of 15 and never looked back.
Lindsay has been filming wildlife professionally for over 10 years and has travelled all over the UK and across the world filming everything from emperor penguins in Antarctica to orangutans in the Indonesian jungle.
In 2019, Lindsay won the BAFTA award for Factual Photography and the Royal Television Society award for Cinematography.
Product details
- Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton; 1st edition (12 November 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1529325463
- ISBN-13 : 9781529325461
- Dimensions : 15.6 x 2.8 x 23.2 cm
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