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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... explorer , even if only in the making , " 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 ...
... explorer , even if only in the making , " 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 ...
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... explorer of all . Amundsen was planning to reach the North Pole , but when he heard that Frederick Cook claimed to have got there , he decided to go south and set out in 1910 aboard Fram , though he didn't tell the crew or the rest of ...
... explorer of all . Amundsen was planning to reach the North Pole , but when he heard that Frederick Cook claimed to have got there , he decided to go south and set out in 1910 aboard Fram , though he didn't tell the crew or the rest of ...
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... explorers had suffered when they pushed farther south , month after crucifying month . I saw them with fresh eyes then . When I entered the hut , the stillness came upon me like a bene- diction . There was a mummified seal , a frozen ...
... explorers had suffered when they pushed farther south , month after crucifying month . I saw them with fresh eyes then . When I entered the hut , the stillness came upon me like a bene- diction . There was a mummified seal , a frozen ...
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... explorers had been gobbled up by Victorians hun- gry for role models embodying the aspirations of the age . As Peter Fleming wrote in Bayonets to Lhasa , his book about the 1904 British invasion of Tibet , " By the end of the nineteenth ...
... explorers had been gobbled up by Victorians hun- gry for role models embodying the aspirations of the age . As Peter Fleming wrote in Bayonets to Lhasa , his book about the 1904 British invasion of Tibet , " By the end of the nineteenth ...
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... explorers and formed by ice flowing off the con- tinent , this shelf consists of a roughly triangular slab of ... explorer's mind . " Helicopter pilots called it " The Big White . " During the course of the afternoon , we engaged ...
... explorers and formed by ice flowing off the con- tinent , this shelf consists of a roughly triangular slab of ... explorer's mind . " Helicopter pilots called it " The Big White . " During the course of the afternoon , we engaged ...
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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 | 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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