The Ferocious Summer

“The Ferocious Summer chronicles the effects of climate change on Adelie penguins in Antarctica. The book is sobering, though the prose is workmanlike, and the narrative occasionally drifts along with the bits of ice shelf the author describes.”

The Ferocious Summer

“Hooper’s book is a chatty, day-by-day recounting of activities at the research station. It gives a vivid sense of living in sardine-tin conditions at the edge of an unruly ocean, in a landscape monumental in its isolating grandeur.”

The Ferocious Summer

"Hooper's book is a chatty, day-by-day recounting of activities at the research station. It gives a vivid sense of living in sardine-tin conditions at the edge of an unruly ocean, in a landscape monumental in its isolating grandeur.

"It's an important book, because Antarctica holds 90 per cent of the world's ice. How its ice fields melt, and how fast, will determine how sea levels rise."