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100 1 $aFrancis, Gavin.
245 10 $aEmpire Antarctica :$bice, silence & emperor penguins /$cGavin Francis.
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300 $aix, 260 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps ;$c24 cm
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500 $a"First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Chatto & Windus"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aPreface : a glimpse from the ice -- Imagining Antarctica -- The axis of the Atlantic -- Of kings and emperors -- Antarctica at last! -- High days and holidays -- The hinge of the continent -- Waiting for winter -- Darkness and light -- Midwinter -- The third quarter -- The promise of life -- Gathering light -- Freedom of the ice -- Of endings and beginnings -- Afterword : the memory of Antarctica.
520 $aDescribes the author's time working as a basecamp doctor at Antarctica's Halley research station and his fascination with the emperor penguin community that shared the icy continent with him.
520 $aFrancis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the basecamp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. It was a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and a very little human history, but also a rare opportunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in the Antarctic. Francis explores the world of great beauty conjured from the simplest of elements, the hardship of living at 50c below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring.
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651 0 $aAntarctica$xDescription and travel.
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