Lost Antarctica: Adventures in a Disappearing Land

摘要

The sight of 50,000 king penguins on the Crozet Island Archipelago in the early 1980s sparked marine biologist James McClintock's fascination with Antarctic fauna. Now a veteran of the extreme south, McClintock shares the otherworldly wonders unveiled by decades of research. The book is packed with joys, from soft-coral 'trees' that replant themselves to the snoozing Weddell seal, stinking of putrid fish, that the author encountered in a dive hut.