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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... wall of the shelter , lay down and closed my eyes . Cherry had prepared to die as he lay there . He did not rue the past ; he said only that he wanted those years over again . The comradeship between the three men never faltered , even ...
... wall of the shelter , lay down and closed my eyes . Cherry had prepared to die as he lay there . He did not rue the past ; he said only that he wanted those years over again . The comradeship between the three men never faltered , even ...
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... wall , and pots and pans dangled from beams . The room was dominated by a drip - oil Aga upon which an antediluvian kettle sat in permanent residence , growling menacingly . Off the entrance , a slender room called Arkwright's was ...
... wall , and pots and pans dangled from beams . The room was dominated by a drip - oil Aga upon which an antediluvian kettle sat in permanent residence , growling menacingly . Off the entrance , a slender room called Arkwright's was ...
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... wall stretched right across the hut , broken only by a narrow gap for traffic , but it had been demolished by the ... walls it contained only his desk . Two other bunks were also tucked away in there , a few feet from Scott's on the ...
... wall stretched right across the hut , broken only by a narrow gap for traffic , but it had been demolished by the ... walls it contained only his desk . Two other bunks were also tucked away in there , a few feet from Scott's on the ...
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