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Fraser’s Penguins leaves one feeling exhilarated—by these remarkable creatures, the landscape they inhabit and the scientists who’ve devoted their lives to studying both.
-The New York Times Book Review
Read the full textIn this sympathetic firsthand report, Montaigne describes the lives of both the researchers who brave the harsh weather and the penguins whose habitat is quickly becoming inhospitable to their reproduction.
He helped launch the magazine Yale Environment 360 in 2008 and is its senior editor.
Fen Montaigne
Fen is the lead lecturer on a DVD series on the polar regions for The Great Courses.
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About the Author
Fen Montaigne began his journalism career at the Houma Courier, a small daily in Louisiana’s Cajun country.
His critically acclaimed 1998 travel book, Reeling in Russia, chronicles his 100-day journey across Russia, fly-rod in hand.
-Publishers Weekly
Read the full textWonderful...a vastly entertaining and edifying work.
-Washington Post
A passionate and beautifully written memoir...a vivid, compelling...portrait of a country that remains an enigma to most Americans.
-Chicago Tribune
Read the full textThink of Montaigne as a Tocqueville with a fly rod who uncovers Russia in the raw.
-Sports Illustrated
A first-rate book...[with] memorable writing...Mr.
He received a citation for excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his reporting from the former U.S.S.R.
In 1994 and 1995, Fen wrote an outdoor column for the Inquirer. But it’s his descriptive prowess, his ability to evoke lavender—and cobalt, magenta and violet—without waxing purple, that most impresses .... Montaigne...has netted a darkly comic tale in which he is the picaresque antihero.
-The Wall Street Journal
Montaigne’s compelling account is a clear and impassioned call for environmental action before the consequences of global warming turn catastrophic worldwide.
-Booklist
FRASER'S PENGUINS is a bittersweet account of the stark beauty of the continent and the climate change that threatens its delicate ecosystem.
He is now at work on a book about the Holocaust in the former Soviet Union.
He also is the lead lecturer on a DVD series on the polar regions for The Great Courses. Fen also has lectured for Lindblad Expeditions aboard the National Geographic Explorer in Antarctica and the Arctic.
Fen is married to a fellow journalist, Laurie Hays.
At other times, Montaigne gives thrilling, blow-by-blow accounts of bird battles and breakups .... That story is told in Fraser’s Penguins: A Journey to the Future in Antarctica, published in 2010, for which Fen received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists & Writers Program.
In 2008, Fen helped launch the online magazine, Yale Environment 360, and worked there as senior editor for 12 years.
After university he spent a-year-and-a-half traveling around the world, working in Iran and Japan.
Fen also has lectured for National Geographic Expeditions on its private train trips on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Fen speaks to organizations and schools about climate change, the global environment, and Antarctica.
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About Fen Montaigne
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Fen grew up in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in international relations.
Sometimes telling less reveals more. And he captures details such as the fantastic scenery as the boat picks its way through broken sea ice dotted with resting seals and groups of penguins squint-eyed under a dazzling light.
-Nature
Read the full textMontaigne's REELING IN RUSSIA is an enlightened travelogue that will appeal not only to fly-fishing enthusiasts but to anyone wanting to know more about Russia and what makes it reel and spin.
He was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in feature writing for a collection of his columns.
Fen became a freelance journalist in 1996, working mainly for National Geographic magazine and also publishing articles in The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Outside, Smithsonian, Forbes, and Audubon.
He went on to spend 20 years as a newspaper reporter, 15 of them at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He delivered 12 of the course’s 24 lectures, speaking about topics ranging from the exploration of Antarctica to the importance of sea ice to polar marine ecosystems. From 1990 to 1993, Fen was Moscow correspondent for the Inquirer and Knight-Ridder newspapers, covering Michael Gorbachev, the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the rise of the new Russia.
They live in New York City and have two daughters, Claire and Nuni.
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Reviews:
Montaigne is a controlled writer, offering careful and clear explanations of matters technical and lexicographic, biologically microscopic and meteorologically global.