An Inconvenience of Penguins What if there was a

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With lyrical prose and a historian’s eye for detail

Through the close examination of four particular 'unloved' animals - eels

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An Inconvenience of Penguins What if there was a'An epic quest in which the journey is at least as entertaining as the end result' Stephen Moss, author of Ten Birds That Changed the World 'Highly entertaining and gloriously obsessional' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan From Kings and Emperors to Macaronis and Rockhoppers, penguins are one of the most immediately recognisable animals on Earth. Yet for all that familiarity, what do we really know about them? An Inconvenience of Penguins follows