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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... miles through Chile for a book I was writing. As I prodded around in the hinterland of the national psyche I discovered that the country did not come to a stop in Tierra del Fuego. A small triangle was suspended at the bottom of every ...
... miles through Chile for a book I was writing. As I prodded around in the hinterland of the national psyche I discovered that the country did not come to a stop in Tierra del Fuego. A small triangle was suspended at the bottom of every ...
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... miles of apparently flat ice—the enormous polar plateau. Mountain ranges as high as the Appalachians are hiding under this flat ice. The South Pole, the axis of the earth's rotation, is located in Greater Antarctica, on the polar ...
... miles of apparently flat ice—the enormous polar plateau. Mountain ranges as high as the Appalachians are hiding under this flat ice. The South Pole, the axis of the earth's rotation, is located in Greater Antarctica, on the polar ...
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... miles of ice break off the Antarctic coast each year. It is, on average, three times higher than any other continent. It never rains and rarely snows on most of it, so Antarctica is the driest desert in the world. Into this land of ...
... miles of ice break off the Antarctic coast each year. It is, on average, three times higher than any other continent. It never rains and rarely snows on most of it, so Antarctica is the driest desert in the world. Into this land of ...
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... miles T E M P E R A T U R E To convert the Celsius Scale (which we used to call Centigrade) to Fahrenheit, multiply the temperature by nine fifths and add 32. In reverse, take 32 from the Fahrenheit temperature and multiply by five ...
... miles T E M P E R A T U R E To convert the Celsius Scale (which we used to call Centigrade) to Fahrenheit, multiply the temperature by nine fifths and add 32. In reverse, take 32 from the Fahrenheit temperature and multiply by five ...
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... the brutalizing effect of the wind. The average wind speed at McMurdo is ten miles per hour (12 knots). Extremely high winds, common all over Antarctica and terrifyingly swift to arrive, can freeze exposed flesh in The Big White.
... the brutalizing effect of the wind. The average wind speed at McMurdo is ten miles per hour (12 knots). Extremely high winds, common all over Antarctica and terrifyingly swift to arrive, can freeze exposed flesh in The Big White.
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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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