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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... light at the back , so the drillers , we heard over the radio , had to stand in the tail . That night I found a hillock of snow on my sleeping bag and was obliged to reseal the igloo bricks from the outside . It was perishing cold in ...
... light at the back , so the drillers , we heard over the radio , had to stand in the tail . That night I found a hillock of snow on my sleeping bag and was obliged to reseal the igloo bricks from the outside . It was perishing cold in ...
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... light . A mist was hanging at the feet of the Transantarctics so that the peaks appeared to be suspended between ice and sky . Once again , I felt as if I had come home . That no longer seemed bizarre – it was a comfortable feeling ...
... light . A mist was hanging at the feet of the Transantarctics so that the peaks appeared to be suspended between ice and sky . Once again , I felt as if I had come home . That no longer seemed bizarre – it was a comfortable feeling ...
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... light falls here , ' I said , pointing to a corner of the painting . We had grown accus- tomed to being frank about the other's work - false politeness seemed absurdly out of place at Wooville . It would have been like wearing couturier ...
... light falls here , ' I said , pointing to a corner of the painting . We had grown accus- tomed to being frank about the other's work - false politeness seemed absurdly out of place at Wooville . It would have been like wearing couturier ...
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