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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... called it Happy Camper School, and as Americans are often not strong on irony I thought the nickname was promising. First was a snowcraft lecture. It took place in the Crary lounge and the teacher, a field leader called Bill with eyes ...
... called it Happy Camper School, and as Americans are often not strong on irony I thought the nickname was promising. First was a snowcraft lecture. It took place in the Crary lounge and the teacher, a field leader called Bill with eyes ...
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... Called the Barrier by the early explorers and formed by ice flowing off the continent, this shelf consists of a roughly triangular slab of floating ice the size of France, which is glued to the continent on two sides.The third side ...
... Called the Barrier by the early explorers and formed by ice flowing off the continent, this shelf consists of a roughly triangular slab of floating ice the size of France, which is glued to the continent on two sides.The third side ...
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... called Lars who was subsequently disqualified when he revealed that he had lived in Britain for five years. Lars had opted to sleep in the covered snow trench we had built—a terrible mistake, it turned out, as it rained ice on him all ...
... called Lars who was subsequently disqualified when he revealed that he had lived in Britain for five years. Lars had opted to sleep in the covered snow trench we had built—a terrible mistake, it turned out, as it rained ice on him all ...
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... called my name. “Um,” I stammered, "can't seem to find any evidence of a preference for blonds..." I pulled myself together. "No beards, though.” Everyone looked at me stonily. Scenario training involved responding to a simulated plane ...
... called my name. “Um,” I stammered, "can't seem to find any evidence of a preference for blonds..." I pulled myself together. "No beards, though.” Everyone looked at me stonily. Scenario training involved responding to a simulated plane ...
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... called Claudio who announced that they were delighted I was joining them on the journey to Terra Nova Bay. He would call me, he said cheerfully, when departure was imminent. We hung up. Trapped in my office for four hours, waiting for a ...
... called Claudio who announced that they were delighted I was joining them on the journey to Terra Nova Bay. He would call me, he said cheerfully, when departure was imminent. We hung up. Trapped in my office for four hours, waiting for a ...
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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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