num_pages: 304
description: For 337 days award-winning wildlife cameraman Lindsay McCrae intimately followed 11000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica. This is his masterful chronicle of one penguin colonys astonishing journey of life death and rebirthand of the extraordinary human experience of living amongst them in the planets harshest environment.My Penguin Year recounts McCrae's remarkable adventure to the end of the Earth. He observed every aspect of a breeding emperor's life facing the inevitable sacrifices that came with living his childhood dream and grappling with the personal obstacles that being over 15000km away from the comforts of home almost proved too much. Out of that experience he has written an unprecedented portrait of Antarcticas most extraordinary residents. 
language: English
title: My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
publisher: Mariner Books