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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... earth , and having found earth , they wanted to land on it and collect it and claim it and souvenir it . With picks and hammers they secured fragments of ' the mineral realm ' , loading their pockets with rocks - real earth from the ...
... earth , and having found earth , they wanted to land on it and collect it and claim it and souvenir it . With picks and hammers they secured fragments of ' the mineral realm ' , loading their pockets with rocks - real earth from the ...
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... Earth in a realm separate from the heavens . Earth , wrote Gilbert , is not to be ' condemned and driven into exile and cast out of all the fair order of the glorious universe , as being brute and soulless ' . Gilbert rejected . a ...
... Earth in a realm separate from the heavens . Earth , wrote Gilbert , is not to be ' condemned and driven into exile and cast out of all the fair order of the glorious universe , as being brute and soulless ' . Gilbert rejected . a ...
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... Earth's relation- ship to the Sun , and he subjected this celestial marriage to the scrutiny of mathematics . Earth's orbital geometry held the key . Milankovitch identified three crucial astronomical rhythms : the variation in Earth's ...
... Earth's relation- ship to the Sun , and he subjected this celestial marriage to the scrutiny of mathematics . Earth's orbital geometry held the key . Milankovitch identified three crucial astronomical rhythms : the variation in Earth's ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |