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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Travels in Antarctica Sara Wheeler. minutes or months . The Squirrel team used Scott as their base on that part of the ... months . They obviously felt that it operated on the principle of the camel's hump . As for Seismic Man 30 TERRA ...
Travels in Antarctica Sara Wheeler. minutes or months . The Squirrel team used Scott as their base on that part of the ... months . They obviously felt that it operated on the principle of the camel's hump . As for Seismic Man 30 TERRA ...
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... months with five men in their summer clothes and two months ' rations during the Antarctic winter of 1912. They suffered from a painful condition they called ' igloo Winds that cool , grow denser and therefore rush downwards . A névé is ...
... months with five men in their summer clothes and two months ' rations during the Antarctic winter of 1912. They suffered from a painful condition they called ' igloo Winds that cool , grow denser and therefore rush downwards . A névé is ...
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... months . Then men got used to a meat and fat diet , though its high acid content meant that some frequently wet themselves . After eight months on the edge of endurance they had to trek 230 miles back to the hut on Ross Island , and ...
... months . Then men got used to a meat and fat diet , though its high acid content meant that some frequently wet themselves . After eight months on the edge of endurance they had to trek 230 miles back to the hut on Ross Island , and ...
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