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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Wheeler gives us the beauty of Antarctica—its vastness, its endless sunlight or months of night, its seasons of four-hour sunsets, its animal life." —Newsday "Terra Incognita must be the first funny book about Antarctica.
Wheeler gives us the beauty of Antarctica—its vastness, its endless sunlight or months of night, its seasons of four-hour sunsets, its animal life." —Newsday "Terra Incognita must be the first funny book about Antarctica.
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The summer season, broadly speaking, runs from mid-October to late February. One of Antarctica's most salient characteristics is that of scale. The continent, one tenth of the earth's land surface, is considerably larger than Europe and ...
The summer season, broadly speaking, runs from mid-October to late February. One of Antarctica's most salient characteristics is that of scale. The continent, one tenth of the earth's land surface, is considerably larger than Europe and ...
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The ice corer had six seasons of “ice time,” and she showed me how to switch on the white rubber bunny boots. They were insulated by air and had a valve on the side that you had to open and close on aircraft.
The ice corer had six seasons of “ice time,” and she showed me how to switch on the white rubber bunny boots. They were insulated by air and had a valve on the side that you had to open and close on aircraft.
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It was not advertised, it was not even spoken of very often, and some people spent whole seasons on base without knowing of its existence.Yet anyone with lowlife inclinations appeared at the Corner Bar within 48 hours of arrival.
It was not advertised, it was not even spoken of very often, and some people spent whole seasons on base without knowing of its existence.Yet anyone with lowlife inclinations appeared at the Corner Bar within 48 hours of arrival.
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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 |