📗 Libro en inglés AN INCONVENIENCE OF PENGUINS: EPIC VOYAGES IN PURSUIT OF THE WORL DS MOST BELOVED BIRD

Jamie Lafferty embarks on an epic quest in which the journey is at least as entertaining as the end result Stephen Moss author of Ten Birds That Changed the World Highly entertaining and gloriously obsessional Philip Hoare author of Leviathan A wise rude hilarious and oddly moving account Ed Caesar author of The Moth and the Mountain The problem started as problems often do with a penguin From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth Yet for all that familiarity what do we really know about them An Inconvenience of Penguins follows award winning travel writer Jamie Lafferty as he visits all eighteen species in a bid to understand the birds and their extraordinarily varied habitats a little better On voyages to some of the planet s most inaccessible and challenging landscapes he recounts the history of our unique relationship with the world s most popular bird telling not only the stories of the penguins but also the people and places around them From getting stranded in the Galapagos and marching through African guano fields to leading photography groups in the Antarctic and taking psychedelics on the Falklands this is a birding quest like no other Along