Journeys with Emperors: Tracking the World's Most Extreme Penguin

With stunning photographs from the ice edge, a firsthand account of a researcher’s time in Antarctica and of the perilous journeys of the world’s largest penguin species: the iconic emperor.

Nearly all emperor penguin colonies are extremely remote; of the sixty—six known, fewer than thirty have been visited by humans, and even fewer have been the subject of successful research programs. One of the largest known emperor penguin colonies is found on a narrow band of sea ice attached to the A...