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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... felt less homeless than I have ever felt anywhere, and I knew immediately that I had to return. When I left, wedged into the same decrepit Hercules, I wrote Terra Incognita on the cover of a virgin notebook. k I discovered that the ...
... felt less homeless than I have ever felt anywhere, and I knew immediately that I had to return. When I left, wedged into the same decrepit Hercules, I wrote Terra Incognita on the cover of a virgin notebook. k I discovered that the ...
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... felt very alone at that moment, in a strange country bound for a stranger continent. The safety video began, optimistically, with Scott's "Great God, this is an awful place" delivered in a sonorous thespian voice and accompanying ...
... felt very alone at that moment, in a strange country bound for a stranger continent. The safety video began, optimistically, with Scott's "Great God, this is an awful place" delivered in a sonorous thespian voice and accompanying ...
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... felt as if I were disappearing into a black hole. k The taxi arrived at four, and Roger struggled out of bed to say goodbye. It had rained in the night, and the tarmac glistened in the deserted roads, the only trace of life a cat ...
... felt as if I were disappearing into a black hole. k The taxi arrived at four, and Roger struggled out of bed to say goodbye. It had rained in the night, and the tarmac glistened in the deserted roads, the only trace of life a cat ...
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... felt like stealing a march on time. Although McMurdo had two bars, as well as a coffee shop where temperate people sipped cappuccino, the best place to go drinking was an unofficial nightspot on the gloomy top floor of a dorm. It was ...
... felt like stealing a march on time. Although McMurdo had two bars, as well as a coffee shop where temperate people sipped cappuccino, the best place to go drinking was an unofficial nightspot on the gloomy top floor of a dorm. It was ...
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... felt sorry or guilty or upset about it; bases are the tiniest fragments of human life on a vast, unspoiled white continent. It was like complaining about a couple of specks of dust on the Bayeuxtapestry or one inharmonious note in a ...
... felt sorry or guilty or upset about it; bases are the tiniest fragments of human life on a vast, unspoiled white continent. It was like complaining about a couple of specks of dust on the Bayeuxtapestry or one inharmonious note in a ...
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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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