Cherry Kearton's 1920's study of Penguins has been reproduced here along with over 90 photographs, under a new title of 'Penguin Family Life' as he shows the anthropomorphic behaviour of both the penguins and other creatures sharing a piece of rock no more than 4 miles square, during the breeding season no less than 5 million birds strive to raise families, and Cherry brings this event to life with his own very special narrative that helps make you feel part of a penguin family from building a family home to saying goodbye to your children as they leave to make their own way in the world.
Cherry Kearton specialised in animal photography, having taken the first ever photograph of a bird's nest with eggs in 1892. In the summer of 1896 he and his brother, a naturalist, reached the islands of St. Kilda and many other remote places. In 1898 their famous book, With Nature and a Camera, illustrated by 160 photographs, Published in London. Cherry Kearton contributed photographs to seventeen of Richard Kearton's books, and wrote and illustrated a further seventeen titles of his own.
He made the first phonograph recording of birds (a nightingale and a song thrush) singing in the wild in 1900; took the first film of London from the air in 1908, and the first footage of hostilities in the First World War at Antwerp in 1914. Cherry and Richard Kearton are perhaps best remembered for the development of naturalistic photographic hides, including the hollow ox of 1900 and the stuffed sheep of 1901.
