Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Wheeler, Sara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067944078X ISBN 13: 9780679440789

Verlag: Random House Inc, 1998

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Book by Wheeler Sara

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The first woman ever sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation in Antarctica offers an account of expeditions into the wilderness of Antarctica, including her own. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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ldest, 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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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 067944078X
• ISBN 13: 9780679440789
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 350