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Describes the author's time working as a basecamp doctor at Antarctica's Halley research station and his fascination with the emperor penguin community that shared the icy continent with him.
Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. It was a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and a very little human history, but also a rare opportunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in the Antarctic. Francis explores the world of great beauty conjured from the simplest of elements, the hardship of living at 50c below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring.
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Natural history, Travel, Description and travel, Antarctica, pictorial works, Natural history, antarctica, Penguins, Art, Emperor penguinPeople
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence and Emperor Penguins
2014, Counterpoint Press
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Empire Antarctica: Ice, Silence, and Emperor Penguins
2013, Counterpoint Press
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1619022591 9781619022591
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Empire Antarctica: ice, silence & emperor penguins
2012, Chatto & Windus
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0701186895 9780701186890
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