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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... mornings, keys stuck to lips, [and] history that breathes a chilly wind down your neck....You hardly notice what that accumulation is giving you until, with a pang, you think: Oh, no! It's over." —MICHAEL PARFITT, The New York Times ...
... mornings, keys stuck to lips, [and] history that breathes a chilly wind down your neck....You hardly notice what that accumulation is giving you until, with a pang, you think: Oh, no! It's over." —MICHAEL PARFITT, The New York Times ...
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... morning after Brazil won the World Cup . I sat taut with tension on the steps outside his ele- gant practice , clinging helplessly to my dream until he fell at my feet out of a taxi , his tie undone , shouting , " You have the best ...
... morning after Brazil won the World Cup . I sat taut with tension on the steps outside his ele- gant practice , clinging helplessly to my dream until he fell at my feet out of a taxi , his tie undone , shouting , " You have the best ...
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... morning at the headquarters of the U.S. Antarctic Program in Christchurch in order to be issued my Extreme Cold Weather clothing . I borrowed a mountain bike and cycled along deserted roads to the snoozing outskirts of the city . The ...
... morning at the headquarters of the U.S. Antarctic Program in Christchurch in order to be issued my Extreme Cold Weather clothing . I borrowed a mountain bike and cycled along deserted roads to the snoozing outskirts of the city . The ...
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... morning sky , and then it was too noisy to hear any more about his balloon . I couldn't see a window either , so I hurtled toward Antarctica in my own private capsule . I slept fitfully , squashed between the astrophysicist and the ...
... morning sky , and then it was too noisy to hear any more about his balloon . I couldn't see a window either , so I hurtled toward Antarctica in my own private capsule . I slept fitfully , squashed between the astrophysicist and the ...
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... morning , the ambient temperature minus 12 degrees Celsius , that 14 of us loaded up a tracked vehicle in preparation for Survival School . There were two instructors , one of whom was Frozen Sausage Bill , and eleven pupils besides me ...
... morning , the ambient temperature minus 12 degrees Celsius , that 14 of us loaded up a tracked vehicle in preparation for Survival School . There were two instructors , one of whom was Frozen Sausage Bill , and eleven pupils besides me ...
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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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