Terra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaRandom House Publishing Group, 1 окт. 2014 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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... American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., NewYork, and simultaneously in ... America on acid-free paper 9 First Edition Maps courtesy of Jonathan Cape Book design by Caroline Cunningham To Mark ...
... American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Random House, Inc., NewYork, and simultaneously in ... America on acid-free paper 9 First Edition Maps courtesy of Jonathan Cape Book design by Caroline Cunningham To Mark ...
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... America down there. All places are more than the sum of their physical components, and I saw that Antarctica exists most ... American National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists' and Writers' Program. The two years unraveled in a ...
... America down there. All places are more than the sum of their physical components, and I saw that Antarctica exists most ... American National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists' and Writers' Program. The two years unraveled in a ...
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... America (this is usually shown coming out on the left at the top, depending which way round the map is drawn). More than 99 percent” of this landmass is permanently covered with ice formed by thousands of years of tightly compacted ...
... America (this is usually shown coming out on the left at the top, depending which way round the map is drawn). More than 99 percent” of this landmass is permanently covered with ice formed by thousands of years of tightly compacted ...
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... America. As this was on the other side of the continent, I had to travel back to New Zealand on an American military plane and take a fiendishly roundabout route to the Falklands (it was so diabolical that I ended up back in my own flat ...
... America. As this was on the other side of the continent, I had to travel back to New Zealand on an American military plane and take a fiendishly roundabout route to the Falklands (it was so diabolical that I ended up back in my own flat ...
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... American football game screaming from the television, we sweated in our thermals and ate eggs and hash browns while abiochemistry graduate from North Dakota who had recently learned the rules of cricket discoursed upon them at length ...
... American football game screaming from the television, we sweated in our thermals and ate eggs and hash browns while abiochemistry graduate from North Dakota who had recently learned the rules of cricket discoursed upon them at length ...
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THREE Landscapes of the Mind | 44 |
FOUR The Other Side of Silence | 61 |
FIVE The Naked Soul of Man | 78 |
SIX At the South Pole | 101 |
SEVEN Feasting in the Tropics | 133 |
EIGHT The Response of the Spirit | 146 |
NINE Igloos and Nitroglycerine | 166 |
TWELVE One of the Boys | 208 |
THIRTEEN Fossil Bluff and the Ski Hi Nunataks | 231 |
FOURTEEN Afloat in the Southern Ocean | 263 |
The Erebus Glacier Tongue | 281 |
Cape Evans | 305 |
SEVENTEEN Restoration | 326 |
Ulysses | 335 |
SELECT BIBLICGRAPHY | 343 |
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