Terra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaRandom House, 1998 - Всего страниц: 351 Ever since the time of Captain Cook, Antarctica has captured the imagination of countless explorers who set off against great odds in search of riches and honor, for science or a better world. Sara Wheeler weaves together her own experiences on the ice with the grueling adventures of Antarctica's most mythic figures - the Norwegian Roald Amundsen, who beat his rival to the Pole by twenty-nine days; Ernest Shackleton, whose men lived on seal and penguin blubber for three months when their ship was pierced by an iceberg; Apsley Cherry-Garrard, who famously braved the polar winter to hunt down rare penguin eggs that were ignored and eventually lost back home; Robert Falcon Scott, whose heroic example inspired countless young men to sacrifice themselves in the First World War. Accounts of these epic expeditions alternate with Sara Wheeler's own adventures in Antarctica, where a motley crew of scientists, drifters and dreamers search for bacterial traces that might hold the key to life on Mars, harass penguins and seek to measure this still largely impenetrable land. |
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... beards and swaddled in thermals ? " Then he would extend his glass - holding hand in the direction of a pass- ing waiter . When I got there , I knew I was right . Everything was a symbol , in the context of Eden , and it made no ...
... beards and swaddled in thermals ? " Then he would extend his glass - holding hand in the direction of a pass- ing waiter . When I got there , I knew I was right . Everything was a symbol , in the context of Eden , and it made no ...
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... beard iced up . The instrument could look into distant galaxies , and its detectors were cooled to three degrees above absolute zero ( minus 273 Celsius ) with liquid helium to damp down the machinery's own submillimeter - wave ...
... beard iced up . The instrument could look into distant galaxies , and its detectors were cooled to three degrees above absolute zero ( minus 273 Celsius ) with liquid helium to damp down the machinery's own submillimeter - wave ...
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... Beard at the wheel . " Any chance of a lift to the main building ? " I asked . He nodded , and I climbed up , slinging my bag into the space be- hind the seats . The Beard was silent . I wondered if he often passed hitchhikers . We ...
... Beard at the wheel . " Any chance of a lift to the main building ? " I asked . He nodded , and I climbed up , slinging my bag into the space be- hind the seats . The Beard was silent . I wondered if he often passed hitchhikers . We ...
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TWO Terra Nova Bay | 27 |
THREE Landscapes of the Mind | 44 |
FOUR The Other Side of Silence | 61 |
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