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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... Week after week Shirley , the obliging information assistant at the Scott Polar Research Insti- tute in Cambridge , unlocked the dust - encrusted basement so I could get at the fiction section , which was hidden behind dented tins of ...
... Week after week Shirley , the obliging information assistant at the Scott Polar Research Insti- tute in Cambridge , unlocked the dust - encrusted basement so I could get at the fiction section , which was hidden behind dented tins of ...
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... weeks before coming south . " Britta is fifteen years younger than I , but one day after I met her , I was in love ... week he sent a present , too , a commitment that must have tested his imagination as there weren't any shops except ...
... weeks before coming south . " Britta is fifteen years younger than I , but one day after I met her , I was in love ... week he sent a present , too , a commitment that must have tested his imagination as there weren't any shops except ...
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... week , then after another week turn them inside out and do a week each way round . ) Outside , Wooville had created its own landscape of wind scoops and drifts , and inside it looked increasingly like home , scattered with the ratty ...
... week , then after another week turn them inside out and do a week each way round . ) Outside , Wooville had created its own landscape of wind scoops and drifts , and inside it looked increasingly like home , scattered with the ratty ...
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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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