WHISPERS OF ICE: TALES AND LEGENDS FROM ANTARCTICA

At the southernmost edge of the planet, where silence blends with ice, wind, and sea, Whispers of Ice is born. This book invites readers to journey through Antarctica by weaving together science, myth, and personal experience, turning each reader into an expeditionary of a continent as fragile as it is majestic.
Across 35 brief and captivating stories, the author opens a window into the life that beats within the ice: penguins enduring storms, whales and birds migrating thousands of kilometers, seals resting among ice floes, and marine creatures that shine in the darkness of the sea.
Each “whisper” is a contemporary fable that blends scientific reality, legend, and human experience. In this way, the white immensity ceases to be a remote landscape and becomes part of the reader’s intimate memory. These are stories that move, surprise, and teach—revealing secrets and truths that rarely reach the heart.
The itinerary begins by crossing the Drake Passage and unfolds through islands, seas, and icebergs, revealing both the richness of Antarctic life and the vulnerability of this ecosystem in the face of climate change. These pages warn that a seemingly untouched world bears the marks of our decisions, yet they also remind us that there is still time to protect it.
Whispers of Ice is, above all, a tribute to the human capacity for wonder. With a poetic and accessible style, it invites us to pause and listen to what nature has to tell us, discovering that the silence of the ice is full of voices.
More than a travel guide, it is a transformative literary experience. Whoever reads it will never look at the map of the world in the same way again: within each whisper awakens the awareness that we can only love what we know, and we are only willing to protect what we love.

THE PROTECTOR OF THE PENGUINS. Experiences as an Antarctic Expedition Guide. Editorial Dunken 2023

Penguins are an attraction for tens of thousands of tourists, who invest time and money to get to know them personally in their own habitat, where man is the visitor and they are the real inhabitants.
Antarctica is more than we can imagine, it is more than the seventh continent, it is more than an “extreme” place (the coldest, the windiest, the driest, the only one without a permanent human population or the least inhabited, the highest, the most unknown, the most heroic): it is a space that gives us the opportunity to meet ourselves, to see ourselves, to know ourselves, to reflect and to change.
Through the reading of this book you will be able to learn about tourism in Antarctica, its regulations, the penguins, but you will also witness the transformation that the author undergoes in contact with Antarctic nature: he goes entrusted to bring them human laws and by carefully observing how they live, he realizes that the laws of nature are wiser.
That is why in many paragraphs the author gives the penguins a real protagonism: he personifies them because he considers them as the true inhabitants of Antarctica and as living beings on the same level as other species (including humans). Penguins awaken in him a feeling of reflection. From his first contact with them he feels a particular attraction.

He loves them as if they were his own children and, like his children, he decides to protect them. He feels summoned by them, he feels their call to action.
From that moment on, his life changed forever. That is why, before returning from Antarctica, he wants to share his reflections with all those who have already visited or have yet to do so. He is confident that the readers of his book, once they set foot on Antarctic soil and experience the same sensations, will also become Penguin Protectors.

The Protector of the Whales. Date with the destiny of an Antarctic expedition guide.
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Someone has to protect them. Whales, in Antarctica and Subantarctic islands, were victims of indiscriminate and irrational human activity for a long time, killing them in the pursuit of industry and human progress.
Thousands and thousands of whales are accidentally killed by ship collisions and others are killed for commercial or scientific purposes. Global warming affects them as well.
A special event connected them forever, it is like communicating with someone in another dimension. The fact that they live in different environments does not prevent them from communicating.
Someone has to protect them. The Protector of the Whales is willing to do it. He is willing to do anything. He wants the world to love them as he does. As if they were peers, as if they were mothers, as if they were children.
The book talks about the whaling activity in Antarctica, a sad chapter in the history of mankind, talks about Antarctic tourism in relation to the sites of interest in which this activity left its mark in Antarctica, and of course the whales.