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 Base was prob- ably about one twenty - fifth of the size of its neighbour , at first sight a neat collection of pale green buildings overlooking the frozen shore and a bank of pressure ridges strewn with Weddell seals . I found ...
... Scott Base was prob- ably about one twenty - fifth of the size of its neighbour , at first sight a neat collection of pale green buildings overlooking the frozen shore and a bank of pressure ridges strewn with Weddell seals . I found ...
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Travels in Antarctica Sara Wheeler. minutes or months . The Squirrel team used Scott as their base on that part of the continent , and they had metaphorically put their feet up . Embarrassed about walking into a base and drinking tea ...
Travels in Antarctica Sara Wheeler. minutes or months . The Squirrel team used Scott as their base on that part of the continent , and they had metaphorically put their feet up . Embarrassed about walking into a base and drinking tea ...
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... Scott had found the appropriate photographers , just as in death they had got the Societies they deserved . By the time the helicopter landed at McMurdo , it was already eight o'clock . I was supposed to be moving over to Scott Base ...
... Scott had found the appropriate photographers , just as in death they had got the Societies they deserved . By the time the helicopter landed at McMurdo , it was already eight o'clock . I was supposed to be moving over to Scott Base ...
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