My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors By: Lindsay McCrae [Audiobook]

Author: Lindsay McCrae
Narrated by: Lindsay McCrae

An unprecedentedly intimate portrait of an emperor penguin colony in Antarctica, by a BAFTA Award-winning BBC director of photography who observed these extraordinary birds for a year. This is the ultimate gift for any penguin or nature lover.

For 337 consecutive days, Lindsay McCrae followed 4,000 emperor penguins amid the singular beauty of Antarctica, chronicling their remarkable year-long journey of life, death, and birth. McCrae was there as the director of photography for the acclaimed BBC series Dynasties (narrated by Sir David Attenborough), for which he won a 2019 Bafta Award. Even in the depths of the Antarctic winter – the harshest environment on earth – McCrae witnessed the most intimate moments of these beloved animals as they sought survival with temperatures reaching 60 degrees below zero.

An unforgettable narrative account that is poised to become a classic of nature writing, My Penguin Year takes listeners into the world of the emperor penguin as no book has before. Emperors are the world’s largest penguins, and they play the game of life on the highest difficulty level, breeding in pairs on sea ice during the Antarctic winter. After mating, the female penguin lays her egg, and then disappears, not to return for months. The male penguin will starve himself for more than 100 days, incubating the egg in his pouch, while the female heads off in search of food. Finally, the female returns, and, recognizing her original mate by the sound of his call, is reunited with the father and their newly-hatched chick.

Highlights:

A decision to save penguins’ lives. McCrae details the difficult decision to break documentary protocol and intervene to save a band of penguins who had become trapped in an icy ravine, sure to die without human intervention.

Becoming a new father while on the ice. While filming the lifecycle of the penguins, McCrae himself became a father. He did not see his son until the child was seven months old.

The emperors’ uncertain future. The emperors breed on frozen sea ice. As ocean temperatures rise, their rookeries are endangered – and so too is this extraordinary species. Indeed in April 2019, the New York Times reported that “The Antarctic’s second-largest colony of emperor penguins collapsed…with more than 10,000 chicks lost, and the population has not recovered.”

One year in the wild Antarctic. McCrae’s narrative is also wonderfully evokes an extraordinary natural place, from the rare vantage point of someone who has spent every season there.

Wonderfully compelling, filled with surprising depth, insight, and warmth, My Penguin Year is essential listening for animal lovers, amateur naturalists, and fans of true-life adventure tales as well as H Is for Hawk and The Shepherd’s Life.

General Information
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 Title:                  My Penguin Year: Life Among the Emperors
 Author:                 Lindsay McCrae
 Read By:                Lindsay McCrae
 Copyright:              2019
 Audiobook Copyright:    2019
 Genre:                  Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Nature
 Publisher:              HarperAudio
 Abridged:               No
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 Media:                  Digital
 Source:                 Overdrive MP3
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Book Description
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Publisher's Summary
An unprecedentedly intimate portrait of an emperor penguin colony in 
Antarctica, by a BAFTA Award-winning BBC director of photography who 
observed these extraordinary birds for a year. This is the ultimate 
gift for any penguin or nature lover.
For 337 consecutive days, Lindsay McCrae followed 4,000 emperor penguins 
amid the singular beauty of Antarctica, chronicling their remarkable 
year-long journey of life, death, and birth. McCrae was there as the 
director of photography for the acclaimed BBC series Dynasties (narrated 
by Sir David Attenborough), for which he won a 2019 Bafta Award. Even 
in the depths of the Antarctic winter - the harshest environment on 
earth - McCrae witnessed the most intimate moments of these beloved 
animals as they sought survival with temperatures reaching 60 degrees 
below zero.
An unforgettable narrative account that is poised to become a classic 
of nature writing, My Penguin Year takes listeners into the world of 
the emperor penguin as no book has before. Emperors are the worlds 
largest penguins, and they play the game of life on the highest difficulty 
level, breeding in pairs on sea ice during the Antarctic winter. After 
mating, the female penguin lays her egg, and then disappears, not to 
return for months. The male penguin will starve himself for more than 
100 days, incubating the egg in his pouch, while the female heads off 
in search of food. Finally, the female returns, and, recognizing her 
original mate by the sound of his call, is reunited with the father 
and their newly-hatched chick.
Highlights:
A decision to save penguins' lives. McCrae details the difficult decision 
to break documentary protocol and intervene to save a band of penguins 
who had become trapped in an icy ravine, sure to die without human intervention.
Becoming a new father while on the ice. While filming the lifecycle 
of the penguins, McCrae himself became a father. He did not see his 
son until the child was seven months old.
The emperors' uncertain future. The emperors breed on frozen sea ice. 
As ocean temperatures rise, their rookeries are endangered - and so 
too is this extraordinary species. Indeed in April 2019, the New York 
Times reported that "The Antarctic's second-largest colony of emperor 
penguins collapsed...with more than 10,000 chicks lost, and the population 
has not recovered."
One year in the wild Antarctic. McCraes narrative is also wonderfully 
evokes an extraordinary natural place, from the rare vantage point of 
someone who has spent every season there.
Wonderfully compelling, filled with surprising depth, insight, and warmth, 
My Penguin Year is essential listening for animal lovers, amateur naturalists, 
and fans of true-life adventure tales as well as H Is for Hawk and The 
Shepherds Life.
2019 Lindsay McCrae (P)2019 HarperAudio

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