Browse by category
A Polar Affair - Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins by Lloyd Spencer Davis
$32.99 NZD
Category: Animals
A captivating blend of true adventure and natural history by one of today's leading penguin experts and Antarctic explorers George Murray Levick was the physician on Robert Falcon Scott's tragic Antarctic expedition of 1910. Marooned for an Antarctic winter, Levick passed the time by becoming the first ...Show more
Looking for Darwin by Lloyd Spencer Davis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
'What the hell am I doing here?' It's not just a question about the wisdom of standing alone in one of the most inhospitable places on earth. 'What the hell am I doing here?' becomes the BIG QUESTION: and soon acts like the South Pole to Davis. It sets him on a quest for meaning, in a world that still p ...Show more
Penguins of New Zealand by Lloyd Spencer Davis
$26.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books
New Zealand and its territories are home to a greater number of penguin species than any other region on the planet. Not only are these birds a tourist draw, they are the subject of much ongoing research. Lloyd Spencer Davis, one of the country's top researchers into penguin biology and behaviour, has w ...Show more
Professor Penguin by Lloyd Spencer Davis
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Reading Level: Good - Very Good
Meet 'Bill Bryson in Antarctica' in this engaging book by one of the world's authority on penguins Part memoir, partly the research of a field biologist, Professor Penguin could be called 'How Penguins Shaped My Life'. Based on journals kept during Davis's years of working with penguins in the wild, the ...Show more
The Plight of the Penguin by Lloyd Spencer Davis
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: very good
Book of the Year and Winner of the Non-Fiction section, 2002 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. Penguins have a curious magnetism that compels us to love them. Is this because they seem like us? They walk like us. They dress in tuxedos like us. And perhaps, because of this we think they should act ...Show more
Waddle: A Book of Fun for Penguin Lovers by Lloyd Spencer Davis
$29.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Animal Happiness Ser.
Penguins. We love them. They are instantly recognizable. Seemingly upright caricatures of us, it is easy to bond with these black and white 'little people.' They have become perennial favourites of cartoonists, because they are fun. Comical. They put a smile on our faces. Of course, real penguins are a ...Show more
0 - 5 of 6