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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... continent.” —Entertainment Weekly "A triumph... I cannot believe that anything better will ever be written about Antarctica." —Daily Telegraph "I have read many accounts of polar exploration, but never one which so touchingly describes ...
... continent.” —Entertainment Weekly "A triumph... I cannot believe that anything better will ever be written about Antarctica." —Daily Telegraph "I have read many accounts of polar exploration, but never one which so touchingly describes ...
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... continent and its myths and legends; fascinating for 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 ...
... continent and its myths and legends; fascinating for 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 ...
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... 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 FOUR ...
... 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 FOUR ...
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... continent was little more than a testing ground for men with frozen beards to see how dead they could get. Then, in 1991, I traveled several thousand miles through Chile for a book I was writing. As I prodded around in the hinterland of ...
... continent was little more than a testing ground for men with frozen beards to see how dead they could get. Then, in 1991, I traveled several thousand miles through Chile for a book I was writing. As I prodded around in the hinterland of ...
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... continent, as well as the driest, the coldest and the windiest, and nobody owns it. Seven countries might have "claimed” a slice for themselves, and there might be almost two hundred little research camps, but it is the only place on ...
... continent, as well as the driest, the coldest and the windiest, and nobody owns it. Seven countries might have "claimed” a slice for themselves, and there might be almost two hundred little research camps, but it is the only place on ...
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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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