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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... morning after Brazil won the World Cup . I sat taut with tension on the steps outside his elegant practice , clinging helplessly to my dream until he fell at my feet out of the back of a taxi , his tie unknotted , shouting , ' You have ...
... morning after Brazil won the World Cup . I sat taut with tension on the steps outside his elegant practice , clinging helplessly to my dream until he fell at my feet out of the back of a taxi , his tie unknotted , shouting , ' You have ...
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... morning in front of the word processor . With a duvet over me , I grasped the book in one hand so that it hovered in mid - air above my face . I had been invited to a birthday party that night , and in a burst of organisational zeal I ...
... morning in front of the word processor . With a duvet over me , I grasped the book in one hand so that it hovered in mid - air above my face . I had been invited to a birthday party that night , and in a burst of organisational zeal I ...
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... morning at around that time we saw our first emperors . The velvet backs of their necks were flecked with grey , and they blinked at the pale sun as it struggled through the cloud cover among the translucent bands of coloured light ...
... morning at around that time we saw our first emperors . The velvet backs of their necks were flecked with grey , and they blinked at the pale sun as it struggled through the cloud cover among the translucent bands of coloured light ...
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