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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... Weekly "A triumph... I cannot believe that anything better will ever be written about Antarctica." —Daily Telegraph "I have read many accounts of polar exploration, but never one which so touchingly describes its emotional topography ...
... Weekly "A triumph... I cannot believe that anything better will ever be written about Antarctica." —Daily Telegraph "I have read many accounts of polar exploration, but never one which so touchingly describes its emotional topography ...
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... Weekly (starred) "Full of intriguing characters, compelling history, and narrative that createsvividpictures of this cold, forbidding, magical place... a welcome addition to the adventure travelliterature.” —Booklist A L S O B Y S A R A.
... Weekly (starred) "Full of intriguing characters, compelling history, and narrative that createsvividpictures of this cold, forbidding, magical place... a welcome addition to the adventure travelliterature.” —Booklist A L S O B Y S A R A.
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... Week after week Shirley, the obliging information assistant at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, unlocked the dust-encrusted basement so I could get at the fiction section, which was hidden behind dented tins offilm ...
... Week after week Shirley, the obliging information assistant at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, unlocked the dust-encrusted basement so I could get at the fiction section, which was hidden behind dented tins offilm ...
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... exciting as few as eight weeks might pass from the moment the sun makes its first appearance over the horizon to the day it never sets. * 99.6 percent is the latest figure from the BAS/SPRI satellite map. xix I n troduction.
... exciting as few as eight weeks might pass from the moment the sun makes its first appearance over the horizon to the day it never sets. * 99.6 percent is the latest figure from the BAS/SPRI satellite map. xix I n troduction.
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... week for fit men about to go to the Antarctic,” they were inundated with offers. When we got home I called my friend Cindy in London; I needed to speak to her before I left. She said she was glad I'd rung as she wanted the recipe for ...
... week for fit men about to go to the Antarctic,” they were inundated with offers. When we got home I called my friend Cindy in London; I needed to speak to her before I left. She said she was glad I'd rung as she wanted the recipe for ...
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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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