An Inconvenience of Penguins Liminus battling the wind and sea

battling the wind and sea as they ripped at gutters and flooded stores

The pattern on all sides of the painting is inspired by the rocks on Mt Wellington and the golden jagged pieces in it are stylised fagus leaves

Pocket Beach

Evocative and challenging

An estimate in 2011 suggested that there were 2000 birds remaining

An Inconvenience of Penguins Liminus battling the wind and seaAn Inconvenience of Penguins Jamie Lafferty Wildfire Publishing Softcover '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 'Humorous, touching and refreshingly unsentimental' Colin Thubron, author of Shadow of the Silk Road 'Highly entertaining and gloriously obsessional' Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan 'A wise, rude, hilarious and oddly moving account' Ed