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 to the ice . The period drew to a close little more than two decades later , on 5 January 1922 , when Sir Ernest Shackleton clutched his heart and died in the cramped cabin of his last ship , Quest , off the lonely island of ...
... journey to the ice . The period drew to a close little more than two decades later , on 5 January 1922 , when Sir Ernest Shackleton clutched his heart and died in the cramped cabin of his last ship , Quest , off the lonely island of ...
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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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