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Many of the photographs contained in this book are already rather familiar and popular especially the cover photo of a mother and father penguin with a small penguin chick

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We see in these photographs why lanting is a master nature photographer and why so many of his photographs are featured in magazines such as national geographic

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As he says in the books short introduction it is not a natural history of these amazing birds but a personal photographic interpretation shot over a tenyear period

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Naturally the closeups of parents with chicks are the most appealing photos in the book

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Penguin features photographs of a wide variety of penguin species from the diminutive to the imposing emperor king gentoo galápagos rockhopper macaroni magellanic adélie and chinstrap representing all four main clans of penguin species

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The book is organized into three large sections coming to land going to sea and living on ice which each consist of an preface by lanting introducing us to the featured penguins and explaining a little about their lives followed by many color photographs of penguins doing what the sections title implies

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Most of the images in this book are at least full page

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Some images are accompanied by captions but more detailed captions are found alongside thumbnails of the images in the image index