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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... field in a wind strong enough to lean on , squinting in the buttery light , it was as if I were seeing the earth for the very first time . I felt less homeless than I have ever felt anywhere , and I knew immediately that I had to return ...
... field in a wind strong enough to lean on , squinting in the buttery light , it was as if I were seeing the earth for the very first time . I felt less homeless than I have ever felt anywhere , and I knew immediately that I had to return ...
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... fields or bur- geoning trees or tall people with flaxen hair . Down here there is only cold hell . After that most people forgot about Antarctica for a while , and when all the other white spaces on the map had been colored in , they ...
... fields or bur- geoning trees or tall people with flaxen hair . Down here there is only cold hell . After that most people forgot about Antarctica for a while , and when all the other white spaces on the map had been colored in , they ...
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... field camps on the continent itself , perhaps make the Pole for Christmas , and later hook up with the New Zealanders , who were based nearby , and the Italians in Victoria Land only a couple of hundred miles away . At the end of ...
... field camps on the continent itself , perhaps make the Pole for Christmas , and later hook up with the New Zealanders , who were based nearby , and the Italians in Victoria Land only a couple of hundred miles away . At the end of ...
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... there . As Shackleton said , " We all have our own White South , " and I believe that the reach of the imagination extends far beyond the snow fields . PART ONE Antarctica left a restless longing in my heart xxi Introduction.
... there . As Shackleton said , " We all have our own White South , " and I believe that the reach of the imagination extends far beyond the snow fields . PART ONE Antarctica left a restless longing in my heart xxi Introduction.
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... field ( as opposed to the geographic South Pole , which is the southern point of the earth's rotation ) . In 1911 he led the Aus- tralasian Antarctic Expedition , also aboard Aurora , and made a leg- endary one - man journey , walking ...
... field ( as opposed to the geographic South Pole , which is the southern point of the earth's rotation ) . In 1911 he led the Aus- tralasian Antarctic Expedition , also aboard Aurora , and made a leg- endary one - man journey , walking ...
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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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