Terra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaJ. Cape, 1996 - Всего страниц: 306 Sara Wheeler was the first woman selected by the American government to be the Writer in Residence at the US South Pole Station. She spent six weeks at the pole. In this book she reveals how people live on the bases and how the landscape affects them. |
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... Rothera it is a sweaty two degrees above zero . At the Pole , the January mean is minus twenty - eight . It can reach minus fifty at McMurdo in the winter , but the lowest temperature ever recorded at Rothera is minus thirty - nine ...
... Rothera it is a sweaty two degrees above zero . At the Pole , the January mean is minus twenty - eight . It can reach minus fifty at McMurdo in the winter , but the lowest temperature ever recorded at Rothera is minus thirty - nine ...
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... Rothera as a general base assistant . I had met him at the conference in Cambridge , and as soon as he spotted me stalking the Rothera corridors , he had welcomed me enthusi- astically . I was pathetically grateful . Ben was pushing ...
... Rothera as a general base assistant . I had met him at the conference in Cambridge , and as soon as he spotted me stalking the Rothera corridors , he had welcomed me enthusi- astically . I was pathetically grateful . Ben was pushing ...
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... Rothera . Everyone at Bluebell Cottage had finished whatever it was they had been doing in Antarctica . They were waiting to go home , and it was more agreeable to sit it out at the Bluff than at Rothera not least due to the absence of ...
... Rothera . Everyone at Bluebell Cottage had finished whatever it was they had been doing in Antarctica . They were waiting to go home , and it was more agreeable to sit it out at the Bluff than at Rothera not least due to the absence of ...
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