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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... going to either is like wiping away your life on a child's magic slate. * tic expeditions. Soon I was familiar with the folklore: the. A scientist who went south with both Scott and Shackleton coined the phrase "polar madness,” and ...
... going to either is like wiping away your life on a child's magic slate. * tic expeditions. Soon I was familiar with the folklore: the. A scientist who went south with both Scott and Shackleton coined the phrase "polar madness,” and ...
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... going south was still like going to the pub. "My experience has been,” Sir Edmund Hillary said between mouthfuls of chocolate cake over tea in New Zealand, "that the scientific community in the Antarctic regard it as their property and ...
... going south was still like going to the pub. "My experience has been,” Sir Edmund Hillary said between mouthfuls of chocolate cake over tea in New Zealand, "that the scientific community in the Antarctic regard it as their property and ...
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... going to make my way over to the British Antarcticans, all working on the peninsula, the finger tapering off toward South America. As this was on the other side of the continent, I had to travel back to New Zealand on an American ...
... going to make my way over to the British Antarcticans, all working on the peninsula, the finger tapering off toward South America. As this was on the other side of the continent, I had to travel back to New Zealand on an American ...
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... going to drink pisco sours without me, as I had discovered them in Chile and introduced them to my friends. Still, I told her how to make them, and at the end of the conversation, as we said good-bye, she said she felt as if I were ...
... going to drink pisco sours without me, as I had discovered them in Chile and introduced them to my friends. Still, I told her how to make them, and at the end of the conversation, as we said good-bye, she said she felt as if I were ...
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... going mad from food poisoning. Sixteen years later Mawson led a joint British, Australian and New Zealand expedition to Antarctica. He ended his career as professor of geology and mineralogy at Adelaide University. On the Discovery ...
... going mad from food poisoning. Sixteen years later Mawson led a joint British, Australian and New Zealand expedition to Antarctica. He ended his career as professor of geology and mineralogy at Adelaide University. On the Discovery ...
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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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