Tom Michell
Autor von The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable Bird
Werke von Tom Michell
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- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Geburtsort
- Sussex, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Argentina
Cornwall, England, UK - Berufe
- teacher
- Kurzbiographie
- Tom Michell was born and grew up in the rural downs of southern England, where he learned a love of animals, birds, and plants. After living in Argentina, he returned home and settled in Cornwall, where he helps with the family business, tends a small plot of what he calls "good Cornish soil," and sings with a local choir.
He is an amateur artist, and in his spare time he draws and paints subjects from the wildlife around his home, specializing in birds of prey.
Michell is an enthusiastic proponent of understanding how humans can live in genuinely sustainable ways. He married with four grown-up children and three grandchildren. [from Penguin Lessons (2015)]
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The Penguin Lessons von Tom Michell
I didn't expect to like this book. The story of how Mitchell keeps a penguin during his days as a school teacher in Argentina promised to be a fey, sentimental read, I thought. But it wasn't. Though light in tone and amusing, it highlighted the real challenges faced, and life-lessons learnt from caring for a wild beast in a thoroughly domestic setting. A somewhat thought- provoking and satisfying holiday read.
What a beautiful little book. This memoir was written forty years after the author spent almost a year in South America where he had gone to find adventure (and himself). While serving as a residence master in a private boys’ school, he travels on holiday and rescues a penguin. The author regales the reader with escapades about the rescue, taking the bird into another country, and eventually situating the bird as the school’s mascot. The bird provides joy to those around him and offers lessons in tolerance, hope, and unconditional devotion. The author, who has become an amateur artist, renders some drawings of the penguin. He reflects on the meaning (and coincidence) of having found the sick bird and asks who really saved whom.… (mehr)
Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley.
Probably the best book of 2022 so far and probably in the running for best book of the year. The author finds a dying penguin drenched in oil on a beach and decides to try to save it. He does & then smuggled it into Argentina. I was roaring with laughter about their antics together. At turns serious about the plight of the country & lessons he learned from Juan Salvado (the penguin), it is all but impossible to put down. All the love for this book.
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