My Penguin Year: Living with the Emperors - A Journey of DiscoveryEmperor penguins have the most extraordinary lifecycle. They march up to 100 miles over solid ice to reach their breeding grounds. They choose to breed in the depths of the worst winter on the planet; and in an unusual role reversal, the males incubate the eggs, fasting for over 100 days to ensure they introduce their chicks safely into their new frozen world. 'My Penguin Year' recounts author Lindsay McCrae's adventure to the end of the Earth,

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author of Leviathan

especially after a mysterious fire destroys one of his buildings

A doting husband

Simon Armitage's humorous account of the North steers clear of the picturesque Lake District and the big cities of Manchester and Newcastle

the King's first minister

a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat

antiwar protestors

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (a member of Scott's Antarctic expedition)

Rio's BBC1 documentary

China and the Muslim world

explains the science and wonder of the deep ocean