A Gun for a Fountain Pen: Antarctic Journal. November January
The story of the Terra Nova expedition is one of survival in the Antarctic. Levick's journal adds to this record the struggles of the brave men who explored the southern continent. Kerry Stokes AC
There is nothing like the Antarctic for sending the schemes of mice and men all to Murray Levick's journal demonstrates the courage and endurance of the men who took part in Scott's British Antarctic Expedition. This very personal document provides insight into the extraordinary world in which they lived and their courage in the face of unthinkable obstacles.
A Gun for a Fountain Pen is a lively and informal account of the conflicts and friendships that were a part of daily life in the world's harshest environment.
A Polar Affair: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero and the Secret Love Lives of Penguins
The book is an incoherent mashup of Adelie penguin studies (mostly of their sexual behavior), leering looks into the sex lives of long-dead Antarctic explorers, and unorganized information about so many different Antarctic expeditions and their men that if one hasn't read up on them elsewhere, reading "A Polar Affair" will likely result in confusion and possibly headaches. (And now I'm jealous of my friend with eidetic memory.) I've read many excellent books on all of the expeditions written about here and their men, and I feel I know less about them now than I did before I read "A Polar Affair." My brains
A Polar Affair
I’m fairly well versed in the literature of the Arctic and Antarctic, but I’m not sure I’ve encountered any book about these regions that aims to do as much as Davis’s. Not only does he offer readers an insightful and bawdy primer on the breeding habits of Adélie, King and Emperor penguins, he offers an absorbing history of his own Antarctic fieldwork and a glimpse into the private lives of Levick and several important polar explorers of the era, including Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Fridtjof Nansen…“A Polar Affair” offers a timely illumination of a mysterious and vital ecosystem.
New York Times
Somehow, Davis serves it all up with wit and a wry, irrepressible sense of humor, while imparting everything there is to know about penguins.
BookPage
In this intriguing scientific history-cum-memoir, penguin biologist Lloyd Spencer Davis harks back to a pioneering predecessor. George Murray Levick, a physician on Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica, became the first to study penguins scientifically as he overwintered in an ice cave&helli
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Murray Levick was an Antarctic explorer, naval doctor and founder of the British Schools Exploring Society.
Together with five fellow-explorers from Captain Scott’s doomed expedition he survived the seven-month ordeal of a pitch-dark Antarctic winter huddled in a cramped ice cave, surviving on a diet of meat and blubber and a unique brand of resilience and comradeship. Levick's record of the conditions that the group endured tells a tale of heroism and courage in appalling circumstances. In later life he gained distinction both as an expert in survival techniques and as a pioneer of treatments for disabled people.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in , Levick joined the Royal Navy in after a short medical career. It was as a member of the six-strong Northern Party that he took part in Captain Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition for which he had been recruited as medical officer and zoologist. The group spent the summer of – at Cape Adare in the midst of an Adélie Penguin rookery. Levick's observations of the birds were later published in his
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