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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... England ; Mawson stood up and walked home.'18 Back at the coast , Captain Davis was anxiously waiting in the Aurora to take all the men home . ' There is still no sign of Mawson ' , he wrote in his private journal on 22 January 1913. He ...
... England ; Mawson stood up and walked home.'18 Back at the coast , Captain Davis was anxiously waiting in the Aurora to take all the men home . ' There is still no sign of Mawson ' , he wrote in his private journal on 22 January 1913. He ...
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... England nine years later , in 1858 , on the clipper Norfolk , a vessel so built for speed that Snell believed that ' it would ahead even in a calm ' , although its narrow beam meant that this diarist found it ' rolls like the devil ...
... England nine years later , in 1858 , on the clipper Norfolk , a vessel so built for speed that Snell believed that ' it would ahead even in a calm ' , although its narrow beam meant that this diarist found it ' rolls like the devil ...
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... History of England , Robert Browning's poetry , Baruch Spinoza's Ethics , Dante Alighieri's Inferno , the Harmsworth History of the World , Francis Bacon's Essays and Archibald Geikie's Geology 48 Slicing the Silence.
... History of England , Robert Browning's poetry , Baruch Spinoza's Ethics , Dante Alighieri's Inferno , the Harmsworth History of the World , Francis Bacon's Essays and Archibald Geikie's Geology 48 Slicing the Silence.
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |