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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... returned from Chile , I found a battered copy of The Worst Journey in a secondhand bookshop . Knowing almost nothing about Antarctica , I lay in the hammock on my roof for an hour's respite after a murderously frustrating morning in ...
... returned from Chile , I found a battered copy of The Worst Journey in a secondhand bookshop . Knowing almost nothing about Antarctica , I lay in the hammock on my roof for an hour's respite after a murderously frustrating morning in ...
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... returning from his first expedition . Barrie would have loved to have gone south . ' I want to know what it is really like to be alive , ' he had ... returned to the glacier to see if the prediction would be fulfilled 204 TERRA INCOGNITA.
... returning from his first expedition . Barrie would have loved to have gone south . ' I want to know what it is really like to be alive , ' he had ... returned to the glacier to see if the prediction would be fulfilled 204 TERRA INCOGNITA.
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... returned from Ski Hi , I tossed seventy - five pancakes . I had also been assigned the taxing job of skua monitoring . In Cambridge they were collecting data on skua distribution in order to tackle the aeronautical problem of ...
... returned from Ski Hi , I tossed seventy - five pancakes . I had also been assigned the taxing job of skua monitoring . In Cambridge they were collecting data on skua distribution in order to tackle the aeronautical problem of ...
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