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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... 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 there all the time and getting to sleep was an unmeetable challenge . I tried to listen to my ...
... 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 there all the time and getting to sleep was an unmeetable challenge . I tried to listen to my ...
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... night . They call it perlerorneq , which means ' to feel the weight of life ' . Just as ' the long , dark night of the soul ' is a popular literary metaphor for spiritual turmoil , so the polar winter perfectly mir- rors the inner ...
... night . They call it perlerorneq , which means ' to feel the weight of life ' . Just as ' the long , dark night of the soul ' is a popular literary metaphor for spiritual turmoil , so the polar winter perfectly mir- rors the inner ...
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... night it lingered a little longer over the Transantarctics , and from the window next to the long table we could see , all night , a flaming band of light in the west . On 25 October , for the first time , the sun stayed with us . I no ...
... night it lingered a little longer over the Transantarctics , and from the window next to the long table we could see , all night , a flaming band of light in the west . On 25 October , for the first time , the sun stayed with us . I no ...
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