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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... wrote Terra Incognita on the cover of a virgin notebook . I discovered that the ancient Greeks had sensed it was there be- cause something had to balance the white bit at the top of the globe . * Medieval cartographers had a stab at ...
... wrote Terra Incognita on the cover of a virgin notebook . I discovered that the ancient Greeks had sensed it was there be- cause something had to balance the white bit at the top of the globe . * Medieval cartographers had a stab at ...
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... wrote : " The Antarctic generally wields a profound effect on personality and character and few men are the same after a stay there . " I wasn't afraid of loneliness ; I had learned that it doesn't arrive on the coattails of isolation ...
... wrote : " The Antarctic generally wields a profound effect on personality and character and few men are the same after a stay there . " I wasn't afraid of loneliness ; I had learned that it doesn't arrive on the coattails of isolation ...
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... wrote Admiral Byrd , the first man to fly over the South Pole , " is an enchanted continent in the sky , pale like a sleeping princess . Sinis- ter and beautiful , she lies in frozen slumber . " " There , if anywhere , " said another ...
... wrote Admiral Byrd , the first man to fly over the South Pole , " is an enchanted continent in the sky , pale like a sleeping princess . Sinis- ter and beautiful , she lies in frozen slumber . " " There , if anywhere , " said another ...
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... , " one of them wrote . Roger suggested keenly that I should test the contemporary application of this theory , and stopped the car outside several bars , urging me inside and saying that he would pick me 5 The Big White.
... , " one of them wrote . Roger suggested keenly that I should test the contemporary application of this theory , and stopped the car outside several bars , urging me inside and saying that he would pick me 5 The Big White.
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... wrote in his journal , " The worst has happened . " Two men died during the march home , and Scott and his two remain- ing companions perished in their tent , holed up in a blizzard eleven miles from a supply depot . Shackleton was an ...
... wrote in his journal , " The worst has happened . " Two men died during the march home , and Scott and his two remain- ing companions perished in their tent , holed up in a blizzard eleven miles from a supply depot . Shackleton was an ...
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| 27 | |
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 | 145 |
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 BIBLIOGRAPHY | 343 |
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