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 looked out over the icefields vanishing into the aspirin-white horizon. Above them, a single snow petrel wheeled against the Hockney blue. Much later I climbed a snowhill with a Uruguayan vulcanologist. There was no sound on the top ...
I looked out over the icefields vanishing into the aspirin-white horizon. Above them, a single snow petrel wheeled against the Hockney blue. Much later I climbed a snowhill with a Uruguayan vulcanologist. There was no sound on the top ...
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Reading them all was like looking at an object through the different angles of a glass prism. On assignment in India, I escaped to find the headquarters of the Indian Antarctic Programme in the asphyxiating concrete heartland of New ...
Reading them all was like looking at an object through the different angles of a glass prism. On assignment in India, I escaped to find the headquarters of the Indian Antarctic Programme in the asphyxiating concrete heartland of New ...
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Antarctica was my love affair, and in the south I learned another way of looking at the world. What I want to do now is take you there. As Shackleton said, “We all have our own White South,” and I believe that the reach of the ...
Antarctica was my love affair, and in the south I learned another way of looking at the world. What I want to do now is take you there. As Shackleton said, “We all have our own White South,” and I believe that the reach of the ...
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Istrapped myself into a red webbing seat, wedged up against a stack of cargo crates, and looked around, like Jonah. The man next to me was an astrophysicist involved in the study of supernova explosions. He planned to send a balloon up ...
Istrapped myself into a red webbing seat, wedged up against a stack of cargo crates, and looked around, like Jonah. The man next to me was an astrophysicist involved in the study of supernova explosions. He planned to send a balloon up ...
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It did not shock me to find what looked like a small Alaskan mining town with roads, three-story buildings, the ill-matched architecture of a utilitarian institution and a summer population of more than a thousand people.
It did not shock me to find what looked like a small Alaskan mining town with roads, three-story buildings, the ill-matched architecture of a utilitarian institution and a summer population of more than a thousand people.
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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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| 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 | 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 |
| Экспорт цитаты | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |