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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... ice shelf or collapsing into the Southern Ocean . As a result , ice shelves surround the jagged Antarctic coastline . One of them , the Ross Ice Shelf , is larger than France . The continent consists , broadly speaking , of two ...
... ice shelf or collapsing into the Southern Ocean . As a result , ice shelves surround the jagged Antarctic coastline . One of them , the Ross Ice Shelf , is larger than France . The continent consists , broadly speaking , of two ...
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... ICE SHELF McMurdo ROSS Ross 1 . SEA Terra Nova Bay Sout uthern Ocean 0 1000 kilometers 0 500 miles Vostok 60 ° S ( Antarctic Treaty Limit ) 90 ° E Mirny Casey Dry Valleys Mawson's Hut " Balleny Is . To New Zealand 180 ° TEMPERATURE To ...
... ICE SHELF McMurdo ROSS Ross 1 . SEA Terra Nova Bay Sout uthern Ocean 0 1000 kilometers 0 500 miles Vostok 60 ° S ( Antarctic Treaty Limit ) 90 ° E Mirny Casey Dry Valleys Mawson's Hut " Balleny Is . To New Zealand 180 ° TEMPERATURE To ...
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... ice hill . " Survival School " sounded more like a group therapy class you might come across on the Upper East Side ... shelf . By the time we embarked on the first session , at the foot of a snow hill , a band of clouds had ...
... ice hill . " Survival School " sounded more like a group therapy class you might come across on the Upper East Side ... shelf . By the time we embarked on the first session , at the foot of a snow hill , a band of clouds had ...
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... ice shelf toward Mount Erebus to learn how to build igloos . ☆ Erebus is an active volcano , and to those who love the south it is more perfect than Fuji , even Hockney's Fuji . The most recent mea- surement of its height , generally ...
... ice shelf toward Mount Erebus to learn how to build igloos . ☆ Erebus is an active volcano , and to those who love the south it is more perfect than Fuji , even Hockney's Fuji . The most recent mea- surement of its height , generally ...
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... ice on him all night . He planted a Norwegian flag outside and called the trench Framheim after Amundsen's base camp . Late in the night Lars and I strapped on cross - country skis and headed out over the ice shelf . He reminded me of a ...
... ice on him all night . He planted a Norwegian flag outside and called the trench Framheim after Amundsen's base camp . Late in the night Lars and I strapped on cross - country skis and headed out over the ice shelf . He reminded me of a ...
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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 | 145 |
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY | 343 |
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