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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... feet long and five feet wide . Then they slid into saturated sleeping bags which after a week began to smell of sour bread . The air was bad in there , and stifling , and sometimes they woke suddenly with the feeling that they had been ...
... feet long and five feet wide . Then they slid into saturated sleeping bags which after a week began to smell of sour bread . The air was bad in there , and stifling , and sometimes they woke suddenly with the feeling that they had been ...
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... feet . Their sleek , deep yellow collars and the mandarin streaks on their lower beaks were glowing in the sun- light , and when they were very close I could see the New Glacier reflected in their soot - black eyes . Their feet looked ...
... feet . Their sleek , deep yellow collars and the mandarin streaks on their lower beaks were glowing in the sun- light , and when they were very close I could see the New Glacier reflected in their soot - black eyes . Their feet looked ...
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... feet by six , and besides the bunk and a few bookshelves on the partition walls it contained only his desk . Two other bunks were also tucked away in there , a few feet from Scott's on the other side of the desk and underneath the ...
... feet by six , and besides the bunk and a few bookshelves on the partition walls it contained only his desk . Two other bunks were also tucked away in there , a few feet from Scott's on the other side of the desk and underneath the ...
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