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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... Southern Ocean I looked beyond the small base in the foreground and thought - that's an ice - desert bigger than Australia . Antarctica is the highest conti- nent , as well as the driest , the coldest and the windiest , and nobody owns ...
... Southern Ocean I looked beyond the small base in the foreground and thought - that's an ice - desert bigger than Australia . Antarctica is the highest conti- nent , as well as the driest , the coldest and the windiest , and nobody owns ...
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... Southern Exposure was a regular American bar with a shuffleboard , a popcorn machine , a video screen and no windows , so it was dark all the time , neatly reversing the environment out- side the door . Knots of scientists sat around ...
... Southern Exposure was a regular American bar with a shuffleboard , a popcorn machine , a video screen and no windows , so it was dark all the time , neatly reversing the environment out- side the door . Knots of scientists sat around ...
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... southern land , but nobody really had the first practical idea what , if anything , was down there . Before Cook , it was a myth . It had always been a myth . The ancient Greeks looked at the winds and the oceans and sensed that it was ...
... southern land , but nobody really had the first practical idea what , if anything , was down there . Before Cook , it was a myth . It had always been a myth . The ancient Greeks looked at the winds and the oceans and sensed that it was ...
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