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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... Antarctic virgins,' illuminating and comfortingly familiar to its fans." —Wanderlust "She stands with the very best of travel writers and allows us an extraordinary glimpse into her paradise." —The Calcutta Telegraph "One of the several ...
... Antarctic virgins,' illuminating and comfortingly familiar to its fans." —Wanderlust "She stands with the very best of travel writers and allows us an extraordinary glimpse into her paradise." —The Calcutta Telegraph "One of the several ...
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... ..... xiii P A R T O N E Map: The Antarctic Continent ONE The Big White................................. 3 TWO Terra Nova Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 THREE Landscapes of the Mind................... 44 ...
... ..... xiii P A R T O N E Map: The Antarctic Continent ONE The Big White................................. 3 TWO Terra Nova Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 THREE Landscapes of the Mind................... 44 ...
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... lift from Punta Arenas to King George Island, off the tip of the spindly Antarctic peninsula, on an antediluvian Hercules belonging to the Chilean Air Force. With nothing but Chile on my mind and a carpetbag xiii Introduction.
... lift from Punta Arenas to King George Island, off the tip of the spindly Antarctic peninsula, on an antediluvian Hercules belonging to the Chilean Air Force. With nothing but Chile on my mind and a carpetbag xiii Introduction.
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... Antarctic myth, that of Captain Scott, a man inextricably woven into the fabric of the national culture. Once I had glimpsed it, the Antarctic remained lodged in my mind's eye. I forced my friends to sit in empty cinemas whenever ...
... Antarctic myth, that of Captain Scott, a man inextricably woven into the fabric of the national culture. Once I had glimpsed it, the Antarctic remained lodged in my mind's eye. I forced my friends to sit in empty cinemas whenever ...
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... Antarctic Survey's medical records. Three weeks before departure I had to undergo various unpleasant tests to document that my heart murmur was not one of the uncommon kind likely to stage a rebellion on the ice. The cardiologist in ...
... Antarctic Survey's medical records. Three weeks before departure I had to undergo various unpleasant tests to document that my heart murmur was not one of the uncommon kind likely to stage a rebellion on the ice. The cardiologist in ...
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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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