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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When someone asked Jonathan Raban why he was making his way down the Mississippi, he said he was having a love affair with it. Antarctica was my love affair, and in the south I learned another way of looking at the world.
When someone asked Jonathan Raban why he was making his way down the Mississippi, he said he was having a love affair with it. Antarctica was my love affair, and in the south I learned another way of looking at the world.
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As I stepped inside the belly of the plane, someone handed me a brown paper lunch bag and pointed to the end of a row. Istrapped myself into a red webbing seat, wedged up against a stack of cargo crates, and looked around, like Jonah.
As I stepped inside the belly of the plane, someone handed me a brown paper lunch bag and pointed to the end of a row. Istrapped myself into a red webbing seat, wedged up against a stack of cargo crates, and looked around, like Jonah.
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He had already discovered meteors from the moon, and he reckoned he had some from Mars, too. He told me this quietly over his yolky toast, explaining how he could identify whence the rocks came as someone else might tell the story of a ...
He had already discovered meteors from the moon, and he reckoned he had some from Mars, too. He told me this quietly over his yolky toast, explaining how he could identify whence the rocks came as someone else might tell the story of a ...
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As I climbed into the back of the Squirrel it occurred to me that I probably ought to tell someone in charge that I was leaving. I wriggled out and ran up the steps to the National Science Foundation Chalet, the administrative center of ...
As I climbed into the back of the Squirrel it occurred to me that I probably ought to tell someone in charge that I was leaving. I wriggled out and ran up the steps to the National Science Foundation Chalet, the administrative center of ...
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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 |