num_pages: 224
description: The year he graduated from college 22-year-old Noah Strycker was dropped by helicopter in a remote Antarctic field camp with two bird scientists and a three months supply of frozen food. His more than a quarter million penguins. Compact industrious and approachable the Adlie Penguins who call Antarctica home visit their breeding grounds each Antarctic summer to nest and rear their young before returning to sea. Because of long-term studies scientists may know more about how these penguins will adjust to climate change than about any other creature in the world. Bird scientists like Noah are less well known. Like the intrepid early explorers of Antarctica modern scientists drawn to the frozen continent face an utterly inhospitable landscape one that inspires isolates and punishes. With wit curiosity and a deep knowledge of his subject Strycker recounts the reality of life at the end of the Earththousand-year-old penguin mummies hurricane-force blizzards and day-to-day existence in below freezing temperaturesand delves deep into a world of science obsession and birds. Among Penguins weaves a captivating tale of penguins and their researchers on the coldest driest highest and windiest continent on Earth. Birders lovers of the Antarctic and fans of first-person adventure narratives will be fascinated by Stryckers book.
language: English
title: Among Penguins: A Bird Man in Antarctica
publisher: Oregon State University Press