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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In 1914 he went again, leading an ambitious expedition in which two ships, the Endurance and the Aurora, deposited parties of men on opposite sides of the continent. The plan was for one party, led by Shackleton, to sledge across ...
In 1914 he went again, leading an ambitious expedition in which two ships, the Endurance and the Aurora, deposited parties of men on opposite sides of the continent. The plan was for one party, led by Shackleton, to sledge across ...
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It was subsequently used as an advance base by other sledging parties. jor McMurdo had risen up less than a mile from the point. The wind was blowing steadily at about 25 miles an hour when I first walked down to the hut, ...
It was subsequently used as an advance base by other sledging parties. jor McMurdo had risen up less than a mile from the point. The wind was blowing steadily at about 25 miles an hour when I first walked down to the hut, ...
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Having rigged up the high-frequency antenna from bamboo poles in the snow and headed off a short burst of machine-gun fire, I found the Field Operations Communications Center on the airwaves and checked in our party, disguising my ...
Having rigged up the high-frequency antenna from bamboo poles in the snow and headed off a short burst of machine-gun fire, I found the Field Operations Communications Center on the airwaves and checked in our party, disguising my ...
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Most New Zealanders are game for a party at any given moment, and these three were no exception, not least because there was no bar at Terra Nova Bay. This might be the last one they'd see for a couple of months.
Most New Zealanders are game for a party at any given moment, and these three were no exception, not least because there was no bar at Terra Nova Bay. This might be the last one they'd see for a couple of months.
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The party named it Cape Roberts after William C. Roberts, their cook. The large-grained surface snow was glittering like millions of tiny mirrors, and two bearded and grizzled figures emerged from a Scott tent among clusters of black ...
The party named it Cape Roberts after William C. Roberts, their cook. The large-grained surface snow was glittering like millions of tiny mirrors, and two bearded and grizzled figures emerged from a Scott tent among clusters of black ...
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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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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 |