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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... winter's day in London . Although the mean annual temperature at McMurdo is minus 17.7 degrees Celsius , in summer it can rocket to plus eight ( it plunges as low as minus fifty in the winter ) . In those balmy - days of summer when I ...
... winter's day in London . Although the mean annual temperature at McMurdo is minus 17.7 degrees Celsius , in summer it can rocket to plus eight ( it plunges as low as minus fifty in the winter ) . In those balmy - days of summer when I ...
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... winter hadn't begun . One day the base commander announced the name of his winter replacement , drawn from the ranks of the fifteen winterers . Bits of paper were posted to the doors of the emptying labs staking out room claims . Twenty ...
... winter hadn't begun . One day the base commander announced the name of his winter replacement , drawn from the ranks of the fifteen winterers . Bits of paper were posted to the doors of the emptying labs staking out room claims . Twenty ...
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... winter . Papers had been presented to a conference on ' The Human Experience in Antarctica : Applications to Life in Space ' , and , using winter bases as laboratories for human behaviour , one academic said , ' Lessons learned in the ...
... winter . Papers had been presented to a conference on ' The Human Experience in Antarctica : Applications to Life in Space ' , and , using winter bases as laboratories for human behaviour , one academic said , ' Lessons learned in the ...
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