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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... scientists assessed the mass balance of the ice sheet : is it growing or diminishing , and what changes are due to human industry ? It is a complex calculation . A snowflake falling on the high interior of the Antarctic dome might take ...
... scientists assessed the mass balance of the ice sheet : is it growing or diminishing , and what changes are due to human industry ? It is a complex calculation . A snowflake falling on the high interior of the Antarctic dome might take ...
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... scientists ( the smallest group ) . The scientists were not only fewest in number , but the products of their work were invisible , and so they were persecuted . " Winter tensions between scientists and tradesmen became a feature of ...
... scientists ( the smallest group ) . The scientists were not only fewest in number , but the products of their work were invisible , and so they were persecuted . " Winter tensions between scientists and tradesmen became a feature of ...
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Voyaging to Antarctica Tom Griffiths. 69 When the North American scientist , Bill Green , met Russian scientists at Lake Bonney in the 1980s , they ' talked of Tolstoy and Turgenev , the Petersburg of the Czars ' . " Literature provided ...
Voyaging to Antarctica Tom Griffiths. 69 When the North American scientist , Bill Green , met Russian scientists at Lake Bonney in the 1980s , they ' talked of Tolstoy and Turgenev , the Petersburg of the Czars ' . " Literature provided ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |