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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... wind . The average windspeed at McMurdo is ten miles per hour ( twelve knots ) . Extremely high winds , common all over Antarctica and terrifyingly swift to arrive , can freeze exposed flesh in seconds . That , effectively , is what ...
... wind . The average windspeed at McMurdo is ten miles per hour ( twelve knots ) . Extremely high winds , common all over Antarctica and terrifyingly swift to arrive , can freeze exposed flesh in seconds . That , effectively , is what ...
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... wind which never relented . As Frank Hurley wrote of the ice at such a time , it ' lost all its charm and beauty ... wind got really serious every anemo- meter invented broke down on the job . The McMurdo weather department had ...
... wind which never relented . As Frank Hurley wrote of the ice at such a time , it ' lost all its charm and beauty ... wind got really serious every anemo- meter invented broke down on the job . The McMurdo weather department had ...
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... wind , so for a change I tried my hand at steamy love sonnets ( this experiment was not a success ) . When I 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 ...
... wind , so for a change I tried my hand at steamy love sonnets ( this experiment was not a success ) . When I 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 ...
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