Where the Earth Meets the Sky

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A Story of Penguins, People and Place in Antarctica

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

329 kr

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Antarctica is a land of extremes – the coldest, windiest and most remote place on Earth, and now among the most vulnerable to climate change. On isolated Ross Island, from where legendary explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott once set out for the South Pole, Louise joins pioneering penguin biologist David Ainley to document how the world’s largest iceberg is transforming the lives of Antarctica’s penguins.Surrounded by hostile weather, and amid the vast silence and hypnotic splendour of the ice, she observes the penguins’ courtship, incubation and chick-rearing, while confronting her own lingering grief for her father and sister.Blending polar travelogue, science and natural history, Where the Earth Meets the Sky reveals how Earth’s harshest wilderness shapes those who enter it – and how nature, even in its most unforgiving form, can restore the human soul.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-04-21
Mått153 x 234 x 38 mm
Vikt600 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagSaqi Books
ISBN9781908906670

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Louise K. Blight is a conservation biologist and writer with a research interest in seabird ecology and a PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia. An Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria’s School of Environmental Studies, she has authored more than fifty scientific publications, including the academic book Marine Historical Ecology in Conservation, and was Managing Editor of the scientific journal Marine Ornithology from 2016 to 2023. She now serves as the co-chair of the Birds Specialist Sub-committee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, the expert national body that assesses threatened species under the federal Species at Risk Act. She lives in unceded Coast Salish territory on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. She is profoundly grateful to the birds, lands, and waters that have taught her so much, and continue to teach her.