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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... penguin rookery was like approaching a football ground during a match . The two women came to meet us . They had been living at this bleak spot with thousands of penguins for three months , and later I watched them capturing nesting ...
... penguin rookery was like approaching a football ground during a match . The two women came to meet us . They had been living at this bleak spot with thousands of penguins for three months , and later I watched them capturing nesting ...
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... penguin . Now , abusing a penguin carried a stiffer fine than molesting a person . I found myself reading a good deal about deserts while I was in the south , and at that time I was engrossed in Thesiger's Arabian Sands . Like ...
... penguin . Now , abusing a penguin carried a stiffer fine than molesting a person . I found myself reading a good deal about deserts while I was in the south , and at that time I was engrossed in Thesiger's Arabian Sands . Like ...
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... penguin is the world's largest extant diving bird , and the adult weighs seventy pounds . ( Fossils reveal that prehistoric penguins were as tall as six feet . ) On land he knows no fear . He has no predators : Antarctica's largest ...
... penguin is the world's largest extant diving bird , and the adult weighs seventy pounds . ( Fossils reveal that prehistoric penguins were as tall as six feet . ) On land he knows no fear . He has no predators : Antarctica's largest ...
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