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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... Shackleton clutched his heart and died in the cramped cabin of his last ship , Quest , off the lonely island of South Georgia . Robert Falcon Scott , Ernest Shackleton , Roald Amundsen and Douglas Mawson : the Big Four . These were the ...
... Shackleton clutched his heart and died in the cramped cabin of his last ship , Quest , off the lonely island of South Georgia . Robert Falcon Scott , Ernest Shackleton , Roald Amundsen and Douglas Mawson : the Big Four . These were the ...
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... Shackleton never put up a tent before , he had never slept in a sleeping bag . Yet his men were devoted to him . Frank Wild , who took over as leader of the Quest expedition after Shackleton's death , said this at a meeting of the Royal ...
... Shackleton never put up a tent before , he had never slept in a sleeping bag . Yet his men were devoted to him . Frank Wild , who took over as leader of the Quest expedition after Shackleton's death , said this at a meeting of the Royal ...
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... Shackleton , he went to Dulwich College , and as a schoolboy he could remember seeing the James Caird arrive in 1924 , by then resembling an old rowing boat . It had been donated to the school by one of Shackleton's benefactors , John ...
... Shackleton , he went to Dulwich College , and as a schoolboy he could remember seeing the James Caird arrive in 1924 , by then resembling an old rowing boat . It had been donated to the school by one of Shackleton's benefactors , John ...
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