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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... snow petrel wheeled against the Hockney blue. Much later I climbed a snowhill with a Uruguayan vulcanologist. There was no sound on the top of the hill except the occasional taptap as the vulcanologist scraped snow into a specimen tin ...
... snow petrel wheeled against the Hockney blue. Much later I climbed a snowhill with a Uruguayan vulcanologist. There was no sound on the top of the hill except the occasional taptap as the vulcanologist scraped snow into a specimen tin ...
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... world. What I want to do now is take you there. As Shackleton said, “We all have our own White South,” and I believe that the reach of the imagination extends far beyond the snow fields. P A R T O N E Antarctica left a xxi I n tro duction.
... world. What I want to do now is take you there. As Shackleton said, “We all have our own White South,” and I believe that the reach of the imagination extends far beyond the snow fields. P A R T O N E Antarctica left a xxi I n tro duction.
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... snow-white building where a sprinkling of fellow travelers had settled on the low walls and warm grass. I couldn't unstrap the helmet and was obliged to solicit the help of a vulpine Russian glaciologist. At nine sharp we were ushered ...
... snow-white building where a sprinkling of fellow travelers had settled on the low walls and warm grass. I couldn't unstrap the helmet and was obliged to solicit the help of a vulpine Russian glaciologist. At nine sharp we were ushered ...
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... snow hill, a band of clouds had descended and visibility had shrunk to 30 feet. The morning culminated in techniques for self-arrest while sliding down a snow hill on your back and upside down.You plunge your ice axinto the snow at your ...
... snow hill, a band of clouds had descended and visibility had shrunk to 30 feet. The morning culminated in techniques for self-arrest while sliding down a snow hill on your back and upside down.You plunge your ice axinto the snow at your ...
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... snow mound, sawing ice bricks, constructing a wall and digging a trench. Frozen Sausage showed us how to spiral bricks into an igloo; this was very difficult. After we had accomplished these tasks, we put up our tents and the ...
... snow mound, sawing ice bricks, constructing a wall and digging a trench. Frozen Sausage showed us how to spiral bricks into an igloo; this was very difficult. After we had accomplished these tasks, we put up our tents and the ...
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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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