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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... colony of New South Wales , topped up with 2000 gallons of wine from the Canary Islands , hit a giant iceberg at 40 degrees south . The ship had been painstakingly fitted out in response to Governor Arthur Phillip's written cries for ...
... colony of New South Wales , topped up with 2000 gallons of wine from the Canary Islands , hit a giant iceberg at 40 degrees south . The ship had been painstakingly fitted out in response to Governor Arthur Phillip's written cries for ...
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... colony becomes shrill in alarm . Sometimes the bird lands right on the edge of the colony and watches and waits with menacing patience . Sometimes it feints an attack on the heart of the colony . And just when you think it might all be ...
... colony becomes shrill in alarm . Sometimes the bird lands right on the edge of the colony and watches and waits with menacing patience . Sometimes it feints an attack on the heart of the colony . And just when you think it might all be ...
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... colony , instinctively heading towards the sea , from 11 December . On Boxing Day , catas- trophe struck . As the sea ice was breaking up , an enormous fragment of an iceberg fell on the breakaway colony of birds that had , back in ...
... colony , instinctively heading towards the sea , from 11 December . On Boxing Day , catas- trophe struck . As the sea ice was breaking up , an enormous fragment of an iceberg fell on the breakaway colony of birds that had , back in ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |