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A unique and moving real-life tale of the incredible bond between a young professor and a penguin, this audiobook will joy listeners who loved Marley & Me, Dewey the Library Cat, The Good Good Pig, and any e book by Jon Katz. In 1975, 23-year-old Englishman Tom Michell uses his wanderlust to Argentina, where he becomes associate master at a esteemed boarding college. But Michell's journeys really begin when, on a weekend in Uruguay, he rescues a penguin protected in engine oil from an sea spill, cleans the bird up, and attempts to come back him to the sea. However the penguin won't leave his rescuer's aspect. "That was the moment at which he became my penguin, and whatever the future held, we'd face it jointly," says Michell in this captivating memoir. Michell names the penguin Juan Salvador ("John Saved"), but Juan Salvador, as as it happens, is the one who will save you Michell. After Michell smuggles the bird back again to Argentina and into his campus apartment, term spreads about the young Englishman's strange roommate. Juan Salvador is all of a sudden the center of attention - as mascot of the rugby team, confidant to the dorm housekeeper, cohost of Michell's parties, and an unprecedented swimming coach to a timid son. Even through the collapse of the Perónist federal government and amid the country's financial and political strife, Juan Salvador brings happiness to everyone around him - especially Michell, who considers the affectionate dog a compadre and kindred heart. Witty and heartwarming, The Penguin Lessons is a classic in the making, a story that is both absurd and wonderful, the same as Juan Salvador.
