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Antarctica is a land of extremes: the coldest, windiest and most remote place on Earth – and now one of the most vulnerable to climate change. On isolated Ross Island – from where legendary explorers Scott and Shackleton once set out for the South Pole – conservation scientist Louise K. Blight travels south to live and work at the edge of the world. There, alongside one of the world’s great Antarctic scientists, she documents how the planet’s largest iceberg is transforming the lives of Antarctica’s penguins.  Amid blizzards, endless daylight and the stark, hypnotic beauty of the ice, Louise observes the rhythms of penguin life and the small and eccentric human community that shares this inhospitable place. As days are shaped by weather, waiting and survival, Antarctica becomes both a physical and emotional testing ground, its vast silences offering space for reflection. Interwoven with stories of early explorers and modern-day Antarcticans, and enlivened by humorous and touching portraits of the penguins she studies, Where the Earth Meets the Sky is a powerful meditation on solitude, resilience and renewal – and a vivid testament to how the harshest landscape on Earth profoundly alters those who enter it.

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Louise K. Blight is a conservation biologist and writer with a research interest in seabird ecology and a PhD in Zoology from the University of British Columbia. An Adjunct Professor at the University of Victoria’s School of Environmental Studies, she has authored more than fifty scientific publications and serves as the co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, the expert national body that assesses threatened species. She lives on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. She is profoundly grateful to the birds, lands, and waters that have taught her so much, and continue to teach her.

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