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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... never one which so touchingly describes its emotional topography....What she has done could not be done better." —Richard EYRE, The Independent "A beguiling accumulation of icy mornings, keys stuck to lips, [and] history that breathes a ...
... never one which so touchingly describes its emotional topography....What she has done could not be done better." —Richard EYRE, The Independent "A beguiling accumulation of icy mornings, keys stuck to lips, [and] history that breathes a ...
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... exciting : as few as eight weeks might pass from the moment the sun makes its first 99.6 percent is the latest figure from the BAS / SPRI satellite map . appearance over the horizon to the day it never sets xix Introduction.
... exciting : as few as eight weeks might pass from the moment the sun makes its first 99.6 percent is the latest figure from the BAS / SPRI satellite map . appearance over the horizon to the day it never sets xix Introduction.
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... never rains and rarely snows on most of it , so Antarc- tica is the driest desert in the world . Into this land of superlatives I plunged . My plan was to fly in from New Zealand with the Americans in November , just as the austral ...
... never rains and rarely snows on most of it , so Antarc- tica is the driest desert in the world . Into this land of superlatives I plunged . My plan was to fly in from New Zealand with the Americans in November , just as the austral ...
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... never understood the rules . Those elysian Sunday afternoons on the edge of sunlit village pitches never seemed to have much to do with cricket . Two hours later we boarded the plane , a line of bulky vermilion parkas differentiated ...
... never understood the rules . Those elysian Sunday afternoons on the edge of sunlit village pitches never seemed to have much to do with cricket . Two hours later we boarded the plane , a line of bulky vermilion parkas differentiated ...
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... never faltered . After a hundred introductions I was allotted a bedroom in a chocolate - brown dormitory block . It was a pleasant room with two beds , two wardrobes , two desks and several sets of drawers , and it shared a shower and ...
... never faltered . After a hundred introductions I was allotted a bedroom in a chocolate - brown dormitory block . It was a pleasant room with two beds , two wardrobes , two desks and several sets of drawers , and it shared a shower and ...
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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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