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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... moved around the globe . Wegener had been rebuffed and ridiculed when he sug- gested that such awesome mobility might be credited to the forces unleashed by the rotation of the Earth or by gravitational forces from the sun and moon . He ...
... moved around the globe . Wegener had been rebuffed and ridiculed when he sug- gested that such awesome mobility might be credited to the forces unleashed by the rotation of the Earth or by gravitational forces from the sun and moon . He ...
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... moved rocks around and later retreated - hence explaining the puzzling presence of isolated boulders in Swiss valleys - but that whole continents had been covered under miles of ice . The great , mad exponent of this theory was a Swiss ...
... moved rocks around and later retreated - hence explaining the puzzling presence of isolated boulders in Swiss valleys - but that whole continents had been covered under miles of ice . The great , mad exponent of this theory was a Swiss ...
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... moved by the transcendent beauty of the place and thus appalled by the recent , sordid mark of humanity . He found visiting Antarctica to be an emotional roller - coaster : ' if you were constructing a psychological drama in which ...
... moved by the transcendent beauty of the place and thus appalled by the recent , sordid mark of humanity . He found visiting Antarctica to be an emotional roller - coaster : ' if you were constructing a psychological drama in which ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |