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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... continent in the sky , pale like a sleeping princess . Sinis- ter and beautiful , she lies in frozen slumber . " " There , if anywhere , " said another explorer , " is life worthwhile . " The people lighting my way had one thing in ...
... continent in the sky , pale like a sleeping princess . Sinis- ter and beautiful , she lies in frozen slumber . " " There , if anywhere , " said another explorer , " is life worthwhile . " The people lighting my way had one thing in ...
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... continent , one tenth of the earth's land surface , is considerably larger than Europe and one and a half times the size of the United States . It has 90 percent of the world's ice , and at its deepest , the ice layer is over 15,000 ...
... continent , one tenth of the earth's land surface , is considerably larger than Europe and one and a half times the size of the United States . It has 90 percent of the world's ice , and at its deepest , the ice layer is over 15,000 ...
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... continent on his map called Terra Australis Incognita , the Unknown Southern Land , and the existence of Antarctica became fixed in the collective imagination . The fires Magellan saw burning on Tierra del Fuego in 1520 fueled the no ...
... continent on his map called Terra Australis Incognita , the Unknown Southern Land , and the existence of Antarctica became fixed in the collective imagination . The fires Magellan saw burning on Tierra del Fuego in 1520 fueled the no ...
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