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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... cold- weather clothes to my office and attempted to locate my helicop- ter by means of the station telephone network . The machine , it emerged , had already flown to Scott Base , the New Zealand station two miles from McMurdo . As ...
... cold- weather clothes to my office and attempted to locate my helicop- ter by means of the station telephone network . The machine , it emerged , had already flown to Scott Base , the New Zealand station two miles from McMurdo . As ...
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... Cold Heaven I PULLED OUT THE MAP from my pocket and unfolded it as we flew along McMurdo Sound . The Pole was at the top , so on paper we were going down in order to travel north . Scott and Shackleton had obviously sent science teams ...
... Cold Heaven I PULLED OUT THE MAP from my pocket and unfolded it as we flew along McMurdo Sound . The Pole was at the top , so on paper we were going down in order to travel north . Scott and Shackleton had obviously sent science teams ...
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... cold blue grottoes . The sun was low , and the honeyed air was so still that the growlers and bergy bits ' were barely moving . It was a golden evening . A day like that made everything worthwhile . When we got back to Rothera the ...
... cold blue grottoes . The sun was low , and the honeyed air was so still that the growlers and bergy bits ' were barely moving . It was a golden evening . A day like that made everything worthwhile . When we got back to Rothera the ...
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