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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... whaling stations on South Georgia 700 miles away . From there , a vessel could be found to fetch the stranded men . Before the Endur- ance sank , its captain , Frank Worsley , a New Zealander and an officer in the merchant navy , had ...
... whaling stations on South Georgia 700 miles away . From there , a vessel could be found to fetch the stranded men . Before the Endur- ance sank , its captain , Frank Worsley , a New Zealander and an officer in the merchant navy , had ...
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... whaling stations were located . They had to penetrate the perilous and unknown interior . -- Together with Worsley and Crean , Shackleton trekked for thirty miles over mountains and glaciers no man had crossed . It took them thirty ...
... whaling stations were located . They had to penetrate the perilous and unknown interior . -- Together with Worsley and Crean , Shackleton trekked for thirty miles over mountains and glaciers no man had crossed . It took them thirty ...
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... whaling station on South Georgia closed in 1965 . In the late nineteenth century deep - sea trawling took off in the north of Britain in the wake of whaling . My grandfather knew a trawlerman from Grimsby whose eight sons had all become ...
... whaling station on South Georgia closed in 1965 . In the late nineteenth century deep - sea trawling took off in the north of Britain in the wake of whaling . My grandfather knew a trawlerman from Grimsby whose eight sons had all become ...
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