Where The Earth Meets The Sky: A study of penguins, people and place in Antarctica

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Louise K Blight

Where The Earth Meets The Sky

A study of penguins, people and place in Antarctica

Louise K Blight

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Penguin Random House Australia
21 April 2026

Zoology & animal sciences; The environment; Conservation of the environment; Travel writing

A stunning work of natural history, science, and polar travelogue,Where the Earth Meets the Skyis a chronicle of one conservation biologist's time in Antarctica, the most isolated place on the planet.

Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and most inaccessible part of our planet-and now one of the places most affected by climate change. In this moving narrative, conservation biologist Louise K. Blight recounts her summer studying Adelie penguins.

On isolated Ross Island, from which legendary explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott attempted the South Pole, Louise and pioneering penguin biologist David Ainley document how the region's penguins are being affected by the world's largest-ever iceberg. The iceberg's impact is geological in scope and life-changing for the tens of thousands of breeding penguins rushing to mate and rear their young.

Surrounded by the hypnotic splendour of Antarctica's landscape, Louise and David record details of penguin courtship, incubation, and chick-rearing against a backdrop of the mental and emotional impacts of extreme weather, ongoing isolation and twenty-four hours of daylight. Interwoven with stories of early explorers and modern-day Antarcticans, Louise poetically conveys the isolation and the endless silence that ultimately allows her to explore the grief that has lingered since the untimely deaths of her father and sister.

Blending polar travelogue, science and natural history, this is a story about a female scientist navigating Antarctica's extreme conditions and quirky human subculture. It is a story about how the world's most unforgiving environment has shaped the psyches of Antarctica's human visitors, past and present-and how nature can heal the human soul.

By: Louise K Blight
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 1mm, Width: 1mm,
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9781761357435
ISBN 10: 1761357433
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 21 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

LOUISE K. BLIGHT is a conservation biologist and 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 birds specialist group of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, the expert national body that assesses threatened species. Louise lives in unceded Coast Salish territory on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, with her partner Iain, their poodle Poppy, and two indoor cats, Buster Kitten and Toby The Tobes.