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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... eye . I forced my friends to sit in empty cinemas whenever Charles Frend's 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic resurfaced and we watched John Mills stride across a psychedelic backdrop that made the continent look like a seventies album ...
... eye . I forced my friends to sit in empty cinemas whenever Charles Frend's 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic resurfaced and we watched John Mills stride across a psychedelic backdrop that made the continent look like a seventies album ...
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... eyes glared out of its own jar of formaldehyde . Later that day I was inducted into the intricacies of the Waste Management Program . I learned that there were 18 different kinds of waste , ranging from Light Metal to Cooking Oil 10 ...
... eyes glared out of its own jar of formaldehyde . Later that day I was inducted into the intricacies of the Waste Management Program . I learned that there were 18 different kinds of waste , ranging from Light Metal to Cooking Oil 10 ...
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... eyes then . When I entered the hut , the stillness came upon me like a bene- diction . There was a mummified seal , a frozen mutton carcass , and stacked tins of Huntley & Palmer biscuits . It was colder than a sepulchre . They used to ...
... eyes then . When I entered the hut , the stillness came upon me like a bene- diction . There was a mummified seal , a frozen mutton carcass , and stacked tins of Huntley & Palmer biscuits . It was colder than a sepulchre . They used to ...
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... eyes and been - to - bed clothes , and one night he said to me , " Being in McMurdo , I feel I've come halfway round the world to find the outskirts of Austin . " I often heard people expressing disappointment at finding modern ...
... eyes and been - to - bed clothes , and one night he said to me , " Being in McMurdo , I feel I've come halfway round the world to find the outskirts of Austin . " I often heard people expressing disappointment at finding modern ...
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... eyes the color of corn- flower hearts , produced a fistful of frozen sausages from a glove to illustrate the danger of frostbitten fingers . The Berg Field Center managed the practical aspects of life off base , and in it tents ...
... eyes the color of corn- flower hearts , produced a fistful of frozen sausages from a glove to illustrate the danger of frostbitten fingers . The Berg Field Center managed the practical aspects of life off base , and in it tents ...
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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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