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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... land surface , is consider- ably larger than Europe and one - and - a - half times the size of the United States . It has ninety per cent of the world's ice , and at its deepest , the ice layer is over 15,000 feet thick , pushing the land ...
... land surface , is consider- ably larger than Europe and one - and - a - half times the size of the United States . It has ninety per cent of the world's ice , and at its deepest , the ice layer is over 15,000 feet thick , pushing the land ...
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... Land , and the existence of an Antarctica became fixed in the collective geographic mind . The fires Magellan saw burning on Tierra del Fuego in 1520 fuelled the notion of a great land still further to the south . If people lived that ...
... Land , and the existence of an Antarctica became fixed in the collective geographic mind . The fires Magellan saw burning on Tierra del Fuego in 1520 fuelled the notion of a great land still further to the south . If people lived that ...
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... land . He had always suspected that there was no such thing , despite the fact that the weight of the scientific establishment at home pressed upon its existence . Joseph Banks , the brilliant naturalist who sailed with Cook , recounts ...
... land . He had always suspected that there was no such thing , despite the fact that the weight of the scientific establishment at home pressed upon its existence . Joseph Banks , the brilliant naturalist who sailed with Cook , recounts ...
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