Fraser's Penguins Warning Signs from Antarctica

by Montaigne, Fen

• ISBN13: 9781250002631
• ISBN10: 125000263X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-03
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Called "exceptionally poignant" by Nature magazine, Fen Montaigne's timely account of five months in Antarctica gives a taste of the global changes that will soon arrive in our own backyards. Scientist Bill Fraser has devoted three decades to Antarctica, witnessing global warming's effects on the Adelies, the classic tuxedoed penguin dependent on sea ice to survive. Author Fen Montaigne spent five months working on Fraser's field team, and he returned with a moving tale that chronicles the beauty of the wildest place on earth. It's Montaigne's "descriptive prowess, his ability to evoke lavender-and cobalt, magenta and violet-without waxing purple, that most impresses" (New York Times Book Review) as he chronicles the penguins' plight, which is also our own.

Author Biography

Fen Montaigne is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, Outside, Smithsonian, and The Wall Street Journal. A former Moscow bureau chief of The Philadelphia Inquirer, he is the author of Reeling in Russia and has co-authored two other books. For his work on Fraser's Penguins, Montaigne was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. He now works as senior editor of the online magazine Yale Environment 360.