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Australian Book Review

Best Books of the Year 2008

December 2008–January 2009, no. 307 01 December 2008
Judith Armstrong I want to recommend one book only: The Ferocious Summer: Palmer’s Penguins and the Warming of Australia (Allen & Unwin), by Meredith Hooper, an Australian woman living in Cambridge. This is a lovely book, beautifully written, with deep concern for both science and story. It is a study of the effects of rising temperatures on the small Adélie penguins at Palmer Station on A ... (read more)
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