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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... station was largely dependent on the frozen food stacked in boxes under the dome . ( Freezers were unnecessary , though elsewhere on the continent I saw scientists using fridges to stop things from freezing . ) During the winter , when ...
... station was largely dependent on the frozen food stacked in boxes under the dome . ( Freezers were unnecessary , though elsewhere on the continent I saw scientists using fridges to stop things from freezing . ) During the winter , when ...
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... station at the Pole . When the U.S. government learnt of this , the project was quickly hustled down the corridors of bureaucracy and out on to the ice . The station was completed in February 1957 , and no more was heard of the Soviet ...
... station at the Pole . When the U.S. government learnt of this , the project was quickly hustled down the corridors of bureaucracy and out on to the ice . The station was completed in February 1957 , and no more was heard of the Soviet ...
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... station and its few outposts . In a small library tucked away off the famous bar I found a shoebox of replies to a collective advertisement the base commander had placed in a dating magazine back in England ( ' Dear boys , Hope you're ...
... station and its few outposts . In a small library tucked away off the famous bar I found a shoebox of replies to a collective advertisement the base commander had placed in a dating magazine back in England ( ' Dear boys , Hope you're ...
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