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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Pàgina 178
... building program in Australian Antarctica in the 1980s . The undercurrent of tension between building workers and scientists caused much of the unhappiness at Casey . Boffins and builders were not only out of sympathy with one another ...
... building program in Australian Antarctica in the 1980s . The undercurrent of tension between building workers and scientists caused much of the unhappiness at Casey . Boffins and builders were not only out of sympathy with one another ...
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... building program engulfed everything else and , as we have seen , even corroded the communities on the ice . By the mid - 1980s , it was commonly accepted that Australia had slipped in the scientific prestige stakes . Late in 1985 , the ...
... building program engulfed everything else and , as we have seen , even corroded the communities on the ice . By the mid - 1980s , it was commonly accepted that Australia had slipped in the scientific prestige stakes . Late in 1985 , the ...
Pàgina 327
... build some sort of overstructure that would protect the building , to repatriate the whole hut to Australia and install a replica on site , to ' stuff around ' ( in the value - laden words of the noticeboard ) which means to make ad hoc ...
... build some sort of overstructure that would protect the building , to repatriate the whole hut to Australia and install a replica on site , to ' stuff around ' ( in the value - laden words of the noticeboard ) which means to make ad hoc ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |