A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins

by Lloyd Spencer Davis

Book Overview

A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today's leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers.

George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643131257
• ISBN13: 9781643131252
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"