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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... 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 there . Conceiving as they did of a balance in nature , they decided that the arktos , the bear in the north ...
... 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 there . Conceiving as they did of a balance in nature , they decided that the arktos , the bear in the north ...
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... Cook , more than half the crew deserted . Cook was under Admiralty instructions to find the great southern land . He had always suspected that there was no such thing , despite the fact that the weight of the scientific establishment at ...
... Cook , more than half the crew deserted . Cook was under Admiralty instructions to find the great southern land . He had always suspected that there was no such thing , despite the fact that the weight of the scientific establishment at ...
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... Cook died , and despatched south by Tsar Alexander I , Bellingshausen turned out to be a great explorer , and took up Cook's baton . The British Edward Bransfield and the American sealer Nathaniel Palmer also made early sightings ...
... Cook died , and despatched south by Tsar Alexander I , Bellingshausen turned out to be a great explorer , and took up Cook's baton . The British Edward Bransfield and the American sealer Nathaniel Palmer also made early sightings ...
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