Emperors of the ice
Subtitle: a true story of disaster and survival in the Antarctic, 1910-13
By: Richard Farr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780374319755
Subjects: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, -- 1886-1959 -- Juvenile fiction.; Wilson, Edward Adrian, -- 1874-1912 -- Juvenile fiction.; Scott, Robert Falcon, -- 1868-1912 -- Juvenile fiction.; Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, -- 1886-1959 -- Fiction.; Wilson, Edward Adrian, -- 1872-1912 -- Fiction.; Scott, Robert Falcon, -- 1868-1912 -- Fiction.; Explorers -- Fiction.; Emperor penguin -- Fiction.; Penguins -- Fiction.; Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: Apsley "Cherry" Cherry-Garrard shares his adventures as the youngest member of Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica in the early twentieth century, during which he and Edward Wilson try to learn the evolutionary history of emperor penguins. Includes historical notes.
Notes: "The weirdest bird's-nesting expedition that has ever been or ever will be"--frontispiece.