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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I sat taut with tension on the steps outside his elegant practice, clinging helplessly to my dream until he fell at my feet out of a taxi, his tie undone, shouting, "You have the best heart I have ever seen." At the British Antarctic ...
I sat taut with tension on the steps outside his elegant practice, clinging helplessly to my dream until he fell at my feet out of a taxi, his tie undone, shouting, "You have the best heart I have ever seen." At the British Antarctic ...
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It has 90 percent of the world's ice, and at its deepest, the ice layer is over 15,000 feet thick, pushing the land under it far below sea level. Thousands of cubic miles of ice break off the Antarctic coast each year.
It has 90 percent of the world's ice, and at its deepest, the ice layer is over 15,000 feet thick, pushing the land under it far below sea level. Thousands of cubic miles of ice break off the Antarctic coast each year.
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None of us could find space for our enormous feet, and our legs crossed in the aisles at our ankles like upside-down guards of honor. After an hour the temperature rose swiftly from glacial depths The Big White.
None of us could find space for our enormous feet, and our legs crossed in the aisles at our ankles like upside-down guards of honor. After an hour the temperature rose swiftly from glacial depths The Big White.
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It was a windowless room about eight feet square with two modern desks, a set of bookshelves and a blackboard. Around the corner, in the wide corridor, a collection of startlingly ugly Antarctic fish leered out from glass cases under ...
It was a windowless room about eight feet square with two modern desks, a set of bookshelves and a blackboard. Around the corner, in the wide corridor, a collection of startlingly ugly Antarctic fish leered out from glass cases under ...
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By the time we embarked on the first session, at the foot of a snow hill, a band of clouds had descended and visibility had shrunk to 30 feet. The morning culminated in techniques for self-arrest while sliding down a snow hill on your ...
By the time we embarked on the first session, at the foot of a snow hill, a band of clouds had descended and visibility had shrunk to 30 feet. The morning culminated in techniques for self-arrest while sliding down a snow hill on your ...
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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 |
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