Terra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaRandom House Publishing Group, 16 мар. 1999 г. - Всего страниц: 384 It is the coldest, windiest, driest place on earth, an icy desert of unearthly beauty and stubborn impenetrability. For centuries, Antarctica has captured the imagination of our greatest scientists and explorers, lingering in the spirit long after their return. Shackleton called it "the last great journey"; for Apsley Cherry-Garrard it was the worst journey in the world. This is a book about the call of the wild and the response of the spirit to a country that exists perhaps most vividly in the mind. Sara Wheeler spent seven months in Antarctica, living with its scientists and dreamers. No book is more true to the spirit of that continent--beguiling, enchanted and vast beyond the furthest reaches of our imagination. Chosen by Beryl Bainbridge and John Major as one of the best books of the year, recommended by the editors of Entertainment Weekly and the Chicago Tribune, one of the Seattle Times's top ten travel books of the year, Terra Incognita is a classic of polar literature. |
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... ice shelf or collapsing into the Southern Ocean . As a result , ice shelves surround the jagged Antarctic coastline . One of them , the Ross Ice Shelf , is larger than France . The continent consists , broadly speaking , of two ...
... ice shelf or collapsing into the Southern Ocean . As a result , ice shelves surround the jagged Antarctic coastline . One of them , the Ross Ice Shelf , is larger than France . The continent consists , broadly speaking , of two ...
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... ice shelf toward Mount Erebus to learn how to build igloos . Erebus is an active volcano , and to those who love the south it is more perfect than Fuji , even Hockney's Fuji . The most recent mea- surement of its height , generally ...
... ice shelf toward Mount Erebus to learn how to build igloos . Erebus is an active volcano , and to those who love the south it is more perfect than Fuji , even Hockney's Fuji . The most recent mea- surement of its height , generally ...
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... Ice Shelf on the west coast broke up . The regional climate on the peninsula , always the warmest part of Antarctica , has heated up 2.5 degrees Celsius since the 1940s , which has weakened the ice shelves . In 50 years , more than ...
... Ice Shelf on the west coast broke up . The regional climate on the peninsula , always the warmest part of Antarctica , has heated up 2.5 degrees Celsius since the 1940s , which has weakened the ice shelves . In 50 years , more than ...
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