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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... began . The topography of the island was powerful and muscular , bulging with volcanic unrest , and it was a relief to turn away to hundreds of miles of flat , frozen sea . Beyond the sea , the mountains on the fringe of the continent ...
... began . The topography of the island was powerful and muscular , bulging with volcanic unrest , and it was a relief to turn away to hundreds of miles of flat , frozen sea . Beyond the sea , the mountains on the fringe of the continent ...
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... began unfurling corporate flags for the inevit- able sponsorship photographs , and later we saw all their small yellow tents pitched in the distance . The frostnipped faces and frozen beards reminded me of other images of exhausted men ...
... began unfurling corporate flags for the inevit- able sponsorship photographs , and later we saw all their small yellow tents pitched in the distance . The frostnipped faces and frozen beards reminded me of other images of exhausted men ...
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... began to see mist rising from open water to the north . Hillocks of snow grew on the sea ice overnight as pressure ridges formed . We sensed that something dramatic was happening to the environment . A visiting climatologist put it like ...
... began to see mist rising from open water to the north . Hillocks of snow grew on the sea ice overnight as pressure ridges formed . We sensed that something dramatic was happening to the environment . A visiting climatologist put it like ...
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