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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... scientists, drifters, and dreamers who have settled this forbidding landscape that makes Terra Incognita a rare and worthy book." —ALD WILBER, Amazon.com “This is wonderful travel writing." —The Arizona Republic “Stunning." —The ...
... scientists, drifters, and dreamers who have settled this forbidding landscape that makes Terra Incognita a rare and worthy book." —ALD WILBER, Amazon.com “This is wonderful travel writing." —The Arizona Republic “Stunning." —The ...
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... scientist who went south with both Scott and Shackleton coined the phrase " polar madness , " and Admiral Byrd packed two coffins and twelve straitjackets when he led one of the earliest U.S.Antarc- tic expeditions . Soon I was familiar ...
... scientist who went south with both Scott and Shackleton coined the phrase " polar madness , " and Admiral Byrd packed two coffins and twelve straitjackets when he led one of the earliest U.S.Antarc- tic expeditions . Soon I was familiar ...
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... scientist . A British - born Australian , he first went south with Shackleton , aboard Nimrod . Mawson was one of three men to reach the South Magnetic Pole , the south pole of the earth's magnetic field ( as opposed to the geographic ...
... scientist . A British - born Australian , he first went south with Shackleton , aboard Nimrod . Mawson was one of three men to reach the South Magnetic Pole , the south pole of the earth's magnetic field ( as opposed to the geographic ...
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... scientists . Everyone was in high spirits . We headed out a few miles onto the ice shelf . By the time we embarked on the first session , at the foot of a snow hill , a band of clouds had descended and visibility had shrunk to 30 feet ...
... scientists . Everyone was in high spirits . We headed out a few miles onto the ice shelf . By the time we embarked on the first session , at the foot of a snow hill , a band of clouds had descended and visibility had shrunk to 30 feet ...
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... scientist sporting a beard like Trotsky's ( it seemed dangerous , with so many ice axes about ) , and we ate our dehydrated dinners sitting on our snow - brick wall . It was Thanksgiving Day and , gathered chummily around the two stoves ...
... scientist sporting a beard like Trotsky's ( it seemed dangerous , with so many ice axes about ) , and we ate our dehydrated dinners sitting on our snow - brick wall . It was Thanksgiving Day and , gathered chummily around the two stoves ...
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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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