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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Waiting to Fly captures Ron Naveen's fanatic enthusiasm for penguins and preserving the natural beauty of Antarctica. Hardcover, viii. 374 pp., color photos, unclipped jacket. Minimal wear, no names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket.
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Like New. NICE BOOK! CLEAN PAGES, NO MARKINGS & MILD SHELF WEAR ON WHITE DUSTJACKET. Description: In this reverent narrative, Naveen chronicles his 16 years of studying penguins in their arctic habitat. He encourages readers to emulate this flightless bird's holistic approach to survival. Color photos throughout. ""Amazon: Ron Naveen loves penguins more than anything. He has spent season after season studying chinstrap, gentoo, and Adlie penguins in their icy home ranges. Sixteen years huddled at penguin-eye level, avoiding guano blasts, vicious pecks to his groin, and falling to his death off slippery rocks--not to mention exposure. Yet this man feels happier among his beloved penguins than in the temperate north, the nominal home of his own species. He writes: To starboard, I pass an undulating line of chinstraps descending to the beach. The moment tingles, weirdly. I think of all the time I've spent doing something other than chinstraps. How could I have waited so long? Waiting to Fly is a meditative, sweeping look at these misunderstood birds and their flightless, elegant lives. Naveen has terrific field biology tales, and he tells them with grace, making you understand how he might want to freeze his own tail feathers communing with short, goofy, tuxedo-wearing avians. We can learn from the penguins, he says, lessons about health, priorities, and a good work ethic. They may actually have mastered the art of life better than humans. --Therese Littleton"" ""From Publishers Weekly: Lying between latitudes 60 and 70 South, the South Shetland Islands and the northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula are a """"banana belt"""" for three species of penguin? chinstrap, Adelie and gentoo. Naveen (Wild Ice) is the project director of the Antarctica Site Inventory, which studies environmental protection. He spends austral summers counting these penguins and observing their behavior. Their lives, he reports in this captivating book, revolve around food, sex, weather and turf. To travel between field sites and research stations, teams rely on expedition ships (with tourists) and the British Navy icebreaker Endurance, which supplies helicopters. Naveen deftly weaves his experience as field scientist and expedition leader with tales of earlier explorers, such as the two young poseur-adventurers, Thomas Bagshawe, 19, and Charles Lester, 23, who in the 1920s spent a year on the icy continent and produced the first life history of chinstraps and gentoos. But the real stars here are the penguins themselves. Naveen is transparently enamored of them, and his descriptions of their habits, their play, their love of little stones form the liveliest parts of his charming, if occasionally meandering, chronicle. 16 pages of color photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.""
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, 1999. Hard Cover. Book Condition: As New. Remainder mark on bottom page edge. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. pp374 includes index. Illustrated with colour photographs. '. captures Ron Naveen's fanatic enthusiasm for penguins and preserving the natural beaty of Antarctica. His writing makes me think of a symphony. It educates and inspires.'. ABFOY01
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