![]() ![]() Penguin Summer - or, A Rare Bird in Antarctica. Pam comes through it all with friendliness, humour and keen observation. And, as a bonus, the photographs of skuas and penguins are superb. In this book there are absorbing details of birdlife, incisively written with keen observation and humour. ![]() It was a facinating experience, and Pamela Young has the gift of being able to share it graphically. As his assistant she spent many hours observing the rookery, eventually getting to know particular favourites such as Sam-I-Am, the suka. A rare "bird" indeed! But it was birds - two particular species, the Adelie penguin, and its predator, the skua - that she and her husband Euan had come to watch. She went - and this book is her record of life as one of the few women to visit the Antarctic. Being married to an Antarctic zoologist can make for a stimulating life, but after Pamela Young of Christchurch became an ice-widow for four summers in a row she put her foot down and said, "Right, the next time I'm coming with you!" ![]()
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