Review:
There are 17 species of penguins (none of which resemble Danny DeVito) and we meet them all in this colorful photo essay. Chester is not content to make dazzling pictures of these majestic birds, however; he is concerned with their behavior, their relationship with humans and clearly, their survival. Hunted for their meat and boiled for their oil in less enlightened times, Chester's fine feathered friends are still threatened by changes in climate, shifts in availability of food species and tourism. His concern for these delicate creatures is mirrored in his sensitive images of their mating, congregating, diving, swimming and waddling through blizzards.
From the Inside Flap:
omical walk, puffed-out chests, and formal attire, penguins have long amused and fascinated people throughout the world. Perhaps the most anthropomorphic of all animals, they have been compared to head waiters, nuns, and even waddling babies in snow suits.
In The World of the Penguin, world-renowned nature photographer Jonathan Chester combines a magnificent portfolio of penguin photographs with a highly readable and authoritative text. He describes the seventeen species of penguins, from the stately king penguin of the sub-antarctic to the timid little penguin, or blue penguin, of southern Australia and New Zealand to the black-footed African penguin of South Africa. He tells us how penguins are able to withstand the extreme cold of the Antarctic, why the male emperor penguin incubates the female's single egg on the top of his foot for two months, and how the Galapagos penguin can survive on the equator.
The second section describes the relationship between humans and pengui
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