Terra Incognita: Travels in AntarcticaIt 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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—Elle "Wheeler provides a fascinating account of explorers, past and present, who have been drawn to Antarctica, and of her own experience there." —The Miami Herald "Fascinating reader for any explorer, armchair or otherwise.
—Elle "Wheeler provides a fascinating account of explorers, past and present, who have been drawn to Antarctica, and of her own experience there." —The Miami Herald "Fascinating reader for any explorer, armchair or otherwise.
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For Shackleton, Antarctica was a metaphor as well as an explorer's dream. "We all have our own White South,” he added. It is true that for me Antarctica was always a space of the imagination— before, during and after my own journey.
For Shackleton, Antarctica was a metaphor as well as an explorer's dream. "We all have our own White South,” he added. It is true that for me Antarctica was always a space of the imagination— before, during and after my own journey.
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It was Captain Cook, the greatest explorer of all time, who sent the. * Conceiving as they did of an equilibrium in nature, they decided that the arktos, the "bear" in the north, must be balanced by an anti-arktos in the south.
It was Captain Cook, the greatest explorer of all time, who sent the. * Conceiving as they did of an equilibrium in nature, they decided that the arktos, the "bear" in the north, must be balanced by an anti-arktos in the south.
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tain Cook, the greatest explorer of all time, who sent the message back to the Naval hydrographers fidgeting through the long reign of George III that no, down here there are no golden fields or burgeoning trees or tall people with ...
tain Cook, the greatest explorer of all time, who sent the message back to the Naval hydrographers fidgeting through the long reign of George III that no, down here there are no golden fields or burgeoning trees or tall people with ...
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I drank warm beer outside railway stations in the south of England, waiting to be collected by veteran explorers long ... In Hampshire I was entertained by Zaz Bergel, granddaughter of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer's ...
I drank warm beer outside railway stations in the south of England, waiting to be collected by veteran explorers long ... In Hampshire I was entertained by Zaz Bergel, granddaughter of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the Antarctic explorer's ...
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Пользовательский отзыв - PDCRead - LibraryThingIn her writing, Wheeler has a knack for immersing herself in the places that she visits, and teasing out the stories of the location and the people. She has been appointed writer in residence in ... Читать весь отзыв
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Пользовательский отзыв - mahallett - LibraryThingi find antarctica really boring to read about. it's just cold and white. maybe being there is a different experience. the history of antarctic exploration was the only thing i found interesting in ... Читать весь отзыв
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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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| Название | Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica |
| Автор | Sara Wheeler |
| Издание: | перепечатанное |
| Издатель | Random House Publishing Group, 2014 |
| ISBN | 080415242X, 9780804152426 |
| Количество страниц | Всего страниц: 384 |
| Экспорт цитаты | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |