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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... Land by Frank Debenham ( Norwich , Norfolk , UK : 1992 ) . Reprinted by permission of the Erskine Press . HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY AND FABER AND FABER LIMITED : Excerpt from " The Wasteland " and from " Little Gidding " from Collected ...
... Land by Frank Debenham ( Norwich , Norfolk , UK : 1992 ) . Reprinted by permission of the Erskine Press . HARCOURT BRACE & COMPANY AND FABER AND FABER LIMITED : Excerpt from " The Wasteland " and from " Little Gidding " from Collected ...
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... Land . For cen- turies , everyone thought it was rich , fertile and populous and that finding it would be like winning the National Lottery . It was Cap- * Conceiving as they did of an equilibrium in nature , they decided that the ...
... Land . For cen- turies , everyone thought it was rich , fertile and populous and that finding it would be like winning the National Lottery . It was Cap- * Conceiving as they did of an equilibrium in nature , they decided that the ...
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... Land , and I found it in Saul Bellow , Thomas Pyn- chon , Václav Havel , Doris Lessing and Thomas Keneally . When I went to the National Theatre I found that Tony Kushner had set a whole scene of his epic Angels in America down there ...
... Land , and I found it in Saul Bellow , Thomas Pyn- chon , Václav Havel , Doris Lessing and Thomas Keneally . When I went to the National Theatre I found that Tony Kushner had set a whole scene of his epic Angels in America down there ...
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... land surface , is considerably larger than Europe and one and a half times the size of the United States . 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 ...
... land surface , is considerably larger than Europe and one and a half times the size of the United States . 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 ...
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... land met solid sea in a tangle of blue - shadowed pressure ridges or the pleated cliffs of a glacier . I began to readjust my perception of " land " and " sea . " Not far off , a tabular iceberg was clamped into the ice , its steep and ...
... land met solid sea in a tangle of blue - shadowed pressure ridges or the pleated cliffs of a glacier . I began to readjust my perception of " land " and " sea . " Not far off , a tabular iceberg was clamped into the ice , its steep and ...
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| 27 | |
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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