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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... turned out to be a joke , and the shift- workers asleep inside turned fitfully on their cots . The bathroom was called ' The Inferno ' , and it was as bright as the inside of an open fridge . In the toilet cubicles a sign read 99 At the ...
... turned out to be a joke , and the shift- workers asleep inside turned fitfully on their cots . The bathroom was called ' The Inferno ' , and it was as bright as the inside of an open fridge . In the toilet cubicles a sign read 99 At the ...
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... turned out , nothing did . When we got it going again , the Antispryte moved very slowly , with the result that it took two hours to cover the twelve miles to camp . It had no radio , no headlights and no door- handle on the passenger ...
... turned out , nothing did . When we got it going again , the Antispryte moved very slowly , with the result that it took two hours to cover the twelve miles to camp . It had no radio , no headlights and no door- handle on the passenger ...
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... turned around to see what Lucia was up to , I saw that she had begun to paint green glaciers . ' I'm fed up with doing blue ones , ' she said defiantly when she noticed me looking . The next day she made a batch of muffins over the ...
... turned around to see what Lucia was up to , I saw that she had begun to paint green glaciers . ' I'm fed up with doing blue ones , ' she said defiantly when she noticed me looking . The next day she made a batch of muffins over the ...
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