The Last Cold Place takes readers into Antartica, the frozen world of the penguin through the eyes of born field researcher, Naira De Gracia. Not only is this terrific reading about a little known and increasingly threatened species, it also helps readers understand the importance of the work of people who keep eyes, ears, and boots on the important places the rest of us cannot visit. The work she and her intrepid colleagues do could never be replaced by the cameras increasingly meant to survey species numbers and health. Recommended by Kelly