Large 9783961712892

Penguin

£35.00

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Author: Stefan Christmann

150 unique pictures full of poetry The life of the emperor penguins in different phases: from finding a partner to bringing up children Personal experiences of the photographer and insights into the mystical Antarctic winter There is only one bird that hunts in summer and has its young in winter: the emperor penguin . The species survives the merciless climate of the Antarctic winter with an average of -49 ° C thanks to special adaptation to the cold, but also through loving, attentive and helpful interaction with one another and with the youngsters Physicist Stefan Christmann has accompanied a penguin colony over a long period of time and captured various phases of its life in soulful and sensitive images - always in contrast to the spectacular images of the rugged.