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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... wind down your neck....You hardly notice what that accumulation is giving you until, with a pang, you think: Oh, no! It's over." —MICHAEL PARFITT, The New York Times Book Review "Wheeler brings the past alive, through vivid stories ...
... wind down your neck....You hardly notice what that accumulation is giving you until, with a pang, you think: Oh, no! It's over." —MICHAEL PARFITT, The New York Times Book Review "Wheeler brings the past alive, through vivid stories ...
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... wind strong enough to lean on, squinting in the buttery light, it was as if I were seeing the earth for the very first time. I felt less homeless than I have ever felt anywhere, and I knew immediately that I had to return. When I left ...
... wind strong enough to lean on, squinting in the buttery light, it was as if I were seeing the earth for the very first time. I felt less homeless than I have ever felt anywhere, and I knew immediately that I had to return. When I left ...
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... wind pants or polypropylene glove liners from unseen mountain ranges of gear lurking in the hinterland. As we pulled, zipped, laced and unrolled, my companions began to talk. One was a cook, another a senior ice corer and the third a ...
... wind pants or polypropylene glove liners from unseen mountain ranges of gear lurking in the hinterland. As we pulled, zipped, laced and unrolled, my companions began to talk. One was a cook, another a senior ice corer and the third a ...
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... wind dropped, the ambient temperature on Ross Island was no colder than a particularly bitter winter's day in London ... wind. The average wind speed at McMurdo is ten miles per hour (12 knots). Extremely high winds, common all over ...
... wind dropped, the ambient temperature on Ross Island was no colder than a particularly bitter winter's day in London ... wind. The average wind speed at McMurdo is ten miles per hour (12 knots). Extremely high winds, common all over ...
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... wind racing along at 35 miles per hour (56 knots), for example, which is fairly usual, reduces an ambient temperature of minus six degrees Celsius to a windchill factor of minus 28. The Crary Lab was a long, wet-cement-colored building ...
... wind racing along at 35 miles per hour (56 knots), for example, which is fairly usual, reduces an ambient temperature of minus six degrees Celsius to a windchill factor of minus 28. The Crary Lab was a long, wet-cement-colored building ...
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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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