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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... Scott's triumph is presented as the conquering of the self . Similarly , after George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of Everest twelve years after Scott perished , every- one quickly forgot what had actually ...
... Scott's triumph is presented as the conquering of the self . Similarly , after George Mallory and Sandy Irvine disappeared into the mists of Everest twelve years after Scott perished , every- one quickly forgot what had actually ...
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... Scott , they believed they could rise above it . Would Scott have become the myth that he is had he lived ? I doubt it . The most powerful hero is the dead hero , the one who never loses his teeth . Like Peter Pan , he must never grow ...
... Scott , they believed they could rise above it . Would Scott have become the myth that he is had he lived ? I doubt it . The most powerful hero is the dead hero , the one who never loses his teeth . Like Peter Pan , he must never grow ...
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... Scott's illegitimate child when she was fifteen . A handwritten note on the envelope said , ' The lady is now dead . A few years after the war crocodiles of schoolchildren marched through provincial towns and into cavernous cinemas to ...
... Scott's illegitimate child when she was fifteen . A handwritten note on the envelope said , ' The lady is now dead . A few years after the war crocodiles of schoolchildren marched through provincial towns and into cavernous cinemas to ...
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