Summary of Lloyd Spencer Davis's A Polar Affair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Summary of Lloyd Spencer Davis's A Polar Affair write by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-06-27. Summary of Lloyd Spencer Davis's A Polar Affair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get the Summary of Lloyd Spencer Davis's A Polar Affair in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "A Polar Affair" by Lloyd Spencer Davis explores the complex and often misunderstood sexual behaviors of Adelie penguins, challenging long-held beliefs about monogamy and natural selection. The book delves into the Victorian-era perceptions of sexuality, highlighting George Murray Levick's shock at observing same-sex interactions and other behaviors among penguins during his 1911 Antarctic expedition. Levick's findings, initially censored and coded in Greek, were rediscovered by Douglas Russell in 1996, revealing groundbreaking insights into penguin biology...
A Polar Affair
A Polar Affair - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Polar Affair write by Lloyd Spencer Davis. This book was released on 2019-09-03. A Polar Affair available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 man to study penguins up close. His findings were so shocking to Victorian morals that they were quickly suppressed and seemingly lost to history. A century later, Lloyd Spencer Davis rediscovers Levick and his findings during the course of his own scientific adventures in Antarctica. Levick’s long-suppressed manuscript reveals not only an incredible survival story, but one that will change our understanding of an entire species. A Polar Affair reveals the last untold tale from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. It is perhaps the greatest of all of those stories—but why was it hidden to begin with? The ever-fascinating and charming penguin holds the key. Moving deftly between both Levick’s and Davis’s explorations, observations, and comparisons in biology over the course of a century, A Polar Affair reveals cutting-edge findings about ornithology, in which the sex lives of penguins are the jumping-off point for major new insights into the underpinnings of evolutionary biology itself.
Looking for Darwin
Looking for Darwin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Looking for Darwin write by Lloyd Spencer Davis. This book was released on 2014-08-15. Looking for Darwin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An award-winning zoologist travels in Charles Darwin's footsteps, and in search of the meaning of life. In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, zoologist Lloyd Spencer Davis comes face to face with an enraged leopard seal. Towering ice cliffs, a ferocious creature of the deep, and the extreme Antarctic environment all turn Davis's world view on its head. 'What the hell am I doing here?' This question sets Davis on a quest for insight and meaning in a world that still pitches theories of evolution against belief in a Creator; the science of natural selection against a faith that asserts our world was crafted by Intelligent Design. With a self-deprecating grin packed along with his cabin baggage - even when his passport isn't - Davis decides to follow the travels of the eminent nineteenth-century naturalist, Charles Darwin: the man who did more to change our understanding of this planet than any other biologist. Looking for Darwin gives us a personal and intimate insight into Darwin and what drove the man. It is also an attempt to resolve that initially panicked — and then far-reaching — question, that first hit Davis on the big ice. With a wealth of research and vivid imagery — along with a disarming honesty —Lloyd Spencer Davis takes the reader on an unforgettable world tour.
The Masterpiece
The Masterpiece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Masterpiece write by Fiona Davis. This book was released on 2018-08-07. The Masterpiece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. For most New Yorkers, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future. It is 1928, and Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. Though not even the prestige of the school can override the public's disdain for a "woman artist," fiery Clara is single-minded in her quest to achieve every creative success—even while juggling the affections of two very different men. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they'll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression...and that even poverty and hunger will do little to prepare Clara for the greater tragedy yet to come. By 1974, the terminal has declined almost as sharply as Virginia Clay's life. Dilapidated and dangerous, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort. Recently divorced, she has just accepted a job in the information booth in order to support herself and her college-age daughter, Ruby. But when Virginia stumbles upon an abandoned art school within the terminal and discovers a striking watercolor, her eyes are opened to the elegance beneath the decay. She embarks on a quest to find the artist of the unsigned masterpiece—an impassioned chase that draws Virginia not only into the battle to save Grand Central but deep into the mystery of Clara Darden, the famed 1920s illustrator who disappeared from history in 1931.
Penguins
Penguins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Penguins write by Lloyd Spencer Davis. This book was released on 2010-01-29. Penguins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book looks at the penguins - an enduringly popular and fascinating group of birds. Penguins are associated in the public consciousness with the icecap of the south pole, and we are all familiar with images of male Emperor Penguins clustered together through the long night of the Antarctic winter as they incubate the single egg on their feet. However, several species occur in warmer regions further north, in southern Africa, South America, Australia, New Zealand and even the Galapagos. All are flightless but are beautifully adapted swimmers and divers, and many are able to travel at high speeds on dry land by means of spectacular leaps and belly-slides. Most species breed in close-knit colonies and exhibit a complex system of social behaviour. This book looks at all aspects of penguin evolution, biology, ecology and sociobiology, as well as conservation issues affecting the group. It is illustrated with line drawings and black and white photographs, and has a full-colour photographic section.
