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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... journey back from the Pole was a moral drama about the attainment of self- knowledge . Scott went to the mountaintop , there on the blanched wasteland . He failed to return from the last journey , but in that failure he found a far more ...
... journey back from the Pole was a moral drama about the attainment of self- knowledge . Scott went to the mountaintop , there on the blanched wasteland . He failed to return from the last journey , but in that failure he found a far more ...
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... journey had beggared our language , ' Cherry wrote , but he had searched within himself and produced a masterpiece . - The Worst Journey has slipped the shackles of its period and entered the immortal zone . It has influenced countless ...
... journey had beggared our language , ' Cherry wrote , but he had searched within himself and produced a masterpiece . - The Worst Journey has slipped the shackles of its period and entered the immortal zone . It has influenced countless ...
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... journey . He had Scott's ear , so he was a natural confidant for the men . As the great southern journey grew nearer , an increasing number of them came to him with their grievances , whether against Scott , other col- leagues or the ...
... journey . He had Scott's ear , so he was a natural confidant for the men . As the great southern journey grew nearer , an increasing number of them came to him with their grievances , whether against Scott , other col- leagues or the ...
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