My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors - A Journey of Discovery.
by McCrae, Lindsay
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 1529325463
- ISBN 13
- 9781529325461
- Seller
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2019. Pb, export ed.. Paperback octavo, very good condition, colour text-photos, light toning pages, covers corner tips & and spine margin little creased, otherwise minor edgewear. 292 pp. This fascinating book is the personal story of award-winning cameraman Lindsay McCrae's adventure to Antarctica, spending a year living alongside the most resilient creatures in nature, the Emperor Penguins. He was separated from his home, his new wife and his unborn child. He had to overcome the sacrifices that came with living his childhood dream: facing down personal obstacles of being over 15,000 Km away from the comforts of home which almost proved too much. He has written an unprecedented portrait of Antartica's most extraordinary residents.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31091
- Title
- My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors - A Journey of Discovery.
- Author
- McCrae, Lindsay
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Pb, export ed.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1529325463
- ISBN 13
- 9781529325461
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- biography, autobiography, nature, animals, marine, penguins, pacific, antarctica, antarctic
- Bookseller catalogs
- NATURE & ANIMALS;
Terms of Sale
Bookhome Sydney
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About the Seller
Bookhome Sydney
Biblio member since 2004
Annandale, New South Wales
About Bookhome Sydney
Friendly family-owned internet bookshop located in Sydney's inner west. Selling books since 1998 (online since 2000). A broad range of quality secondhand and antiquarian books, particularly Australian history and society (Australiana), psychology, health, animals/pets, environment, science, religion, books for children. Mostly nonfiction.
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