The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica

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Profile, 2008 - Nature - 300 pages
The Antarctic Peninsula is for all of us an early warning system. This book tells the story of Antarctic warming and of how scientists are piecing together the jigsaw of causes and impacts, here in particular through a study of the changing lives and habits of a group of Adelie penguins."

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The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
Meredith Hooper
No preview available - 2007
The Ferocious Summer: Adélie Penguins and the Warming of Antactica
Meredith Hooper
No preview available - 2008
The Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
Meredith Hooper
No preview available - 2007

About the author (2008)

Meredith Hooper has most often been an award-winning writer of many books of non-fiction for children, though her writing ranges from academic articles to fiction for young children. During the last fifteen years she has specialised in writing about the history, geology and wildlife of Antarctica. In 2000 she was awarded the Antarctic Service Medal by the US Congress. She lives in London.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
AuthorMeredith Hooper
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherProfile, 2008
ISBN1846680239, 9781846680236
Length300 pages
Subjects › 

Nature / General
Nature / Weather
Science / Environmental Science
Science / Global Warming & Climate Change
  
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