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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... seemed much more at ease in the landscape . I imagined that the penguins felt safer with her . ' Don't you get bored ? ' I asked in my sketchy Italian . ' No , ' she said , pushing her hair behind her ears . ' I bring a skipping rope ...
... seemed much more at ease in the landscape . I imagined that the penguins felt safer with her . ' Don't you get bored ? ' I asked in my sketchy Italian . ' No , ' she said , pushing her hair behind her ears . ' I bring a skipping rope ...
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... seemed pointless . The setting for my anguish was not a long - forgotten byway far from home but the nearby grubby corner of a London street where someone was eating , or opening a window , or just walking dully away . Faced with ...
... seemed pointless . The setting for my anguish was not a long - forgotten byway far from home but the nearby grubby corner of a London street where someone was eating , or opening a window , or just walking dully away . Faced with ...
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... seemed as if the hut would take off over the Sound and that we would wake up looking out on the ventifacts of the Wright Valley . This did not happen . The door was always frozen shut on those mornings though , and we were obliged to ...
... seemed as if the hut would take off over the Sound and that we would wake up looking out on the ventifacts of the Wright Valley . This did not happen . The door was always frozen shut on those mornings though , and we were obliged to ...
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