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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... door , it was as if he had lifted the lid of a deep freeze . Bloodless icefields stretched away to mountains below softly furred cumulus clouds , and ice crystals came skittering toward us through the blistering air . The Hercules had ...
... door , it was as if he had lifted the lid of a deep freeze . Bloodless icefields stretched away to mountains below softly furred cumulus clouds , and ice crystals came skittering toward us through the blistering air . The Hercules had ...
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... door . I obviously had a roommate , but she was nowhere in evidence . I duly layered up in my multiplicity of cold - weather garments , but when the wind dropped , the ambient temperature on Ross Is- land was no colder than a ...
... door . I obviously had a roommate , but she was nowhere in evidence . I duly layered up in my multiplicity of cold - weather garments , but when the wind dropped , the ambient temperature on Ross Is- land was no colder than a ...
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... door bore a number corresponding to the project number of its occupants . These Science or S - numbers were the key to many things in McMurdo . The small and unfunded Artists ' and Writers ' Program , in which I was a participant ...
... door bore a number corresponding to the project number of its occupants . These Science or S - numbers were the key to many things in McMurdo . The small and unfunded Artists ' and Writers ' Program , in which I was a participant ...
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... door was shut , then so was the bar . It was equipped with a large , low , smoked - Plexiglas table and bar paraphernalia ranging from a huge Budweiser clock to a life - size model penguin with the concen- tric circles of a shooting ...
... door was shut , then so was the bar . It was equipped with a large , low , smoked - Plexiglas table and bar paraphernalia ranging from a huge Budweiser clock to a life - size model penguin with the concen- tric circles of a shooting ...
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... door . " Are you our passenger ? " he asked brightly , and as I nodded he stretched out his hand . " I'm Ben , the copilot . Pleased to meet you . You must be a very important person . " I wondered , as I shook his gloved hand , how ...
... door . " Are you our passenger ? " he asked brightly , and as I nodded he stretched out his hand . " I'm Ben , the copilot . Pleased to meet you . You must be a very important person . " I wondered , as I shook his gloved hand , how ...
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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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