Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to AntarcticaHarvard University Press, 2007 - 399 pàgines In 2002, environmental historian Tom Griffiths set sail with the Australian Antartic Division to deliver a new team of winterers. In this book, Griffiths reflects on the history of human experiences in Antartica, taking the reader on a journey of exploration, discovery and adventure in an unforgettable land. |
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... Byrd's flight to the South Pole became the fitting centrepiece of this mission . It was the bookend to his North ... Byrd's sole navigational instrument during the [ South Pole ] flight was a bottle of cognac . " But he chose his co ...
... Byrd's flight to the South Pole became the fitting centrepiece of this mission . It was the bookend to his North ... Byrd's sole navigational instrument during the [ South Pole ] flight was a bottle of cognac . " But he chose his co ...
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Voyaging to Antarctica Tom Griffiths. 39 There was at least one of Byrd's companions on the ice during that long winter of 1929 who knew his dark secret . Just as Scott was eventually debunked , so was Byrd's reputation savaged within a ...
Voyaging to Antarctica Tom Griffiths. 39 There was at least one of Byrd's companions on the ice during that long winter of 1929 who knew his dark secret . Just as Scott was eventually debunked , so was Byrd's reputation savaged within a ...
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... Byrd's lonely vigil was to be that event . He risked making himself a public sacrifice . 12 Byrd's experiment in loneliness had dangerously exposed the con- tradictions in his personality . He craved publicity , yet he was secretive ...
... Byrd's lonely vigil was to be that event . He risked making himself a public sacrifice . 12 Byrd's experiment in loneliness had dangerously exposed the con- tradictions in his personality . He craved publicity , yet he was secretive ...
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