An Inconvenience of Penguins follows award-winning travel writer Jamie Lafferty as he visits all 18 species of penguin a bid to understand the birds and their extraordinarily varied habitats. On voyages to some of the world''s most inaccessible and challenging landscapes, he recounts the history of our unique relationship with the world''s most popular bird, telling stories of the penguins, but also the people and places around them. From getting stranded in the Galapagos to marching through African guano fields, and leading photography groups in the Antarctic to taking psychedelics on the Falklands, this is a birding quest like no other. Featuring cameos from a wide cast of characters including Ernest Shackleton, Charles Darwin, and Sir Francis Drake, as well as beautiful photographs of each penguin species, An Inconvenience of Penguins is part-love letter to and part-biography of these remarkable creatures.

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Jamie Lafferty is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, Financial Times and National Geographic Traveller, while his work has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Telegraph and BBC Travel. He has been nominated for over twenty awards in the travel writing industry, winning Travel Writer of the Year at the Travel Media Awards in 2020 and Specialist Travel Writer of the Year at the TravMedia Awards in April 2023. When he's not travelling, he lives in Glasgow.

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An Inconvenience of Penguins follows award-winning travel writer Jamie Lafferty as he visits all 18 species of penguin a bid to understand the birds and their extraordinarily varied habitats. On voyages to some of the world's most inaccessible and challenging landscapes, he recounts the history of our unique relationship with the world's most popular bird, telling stories of the penguins, but also the people and places around them.

From getting stranded in the Galapagos to marching through African guano fields, and leading photography groups in the Antarctic to taking psychedelics on the Falklands, this is a birding quest like no other.

Featuring cameos from a wide cast of characters including Ernest Shackleton, Charles Darwin, and Sir Francis Drake, as well as beautiful photographs of each penguin species, An Inconvenience of Penguins is part-love letter to and part-biography of these remarkable creatures.