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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... James Caird , across 1300 kilometres ( 800 miles ) of ocean back to South Georgia . It was not the closest port – that would have been Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands , 870 kilometres ( 540 miles ) away - but it lay in the path of ...
... James Caird , across 1300 kilometres ( 800 miles ) of ocean back to South Georgia . It was not the closest port – that would have been Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands , 870 kilometres ( 540 miles ) away - but it lay in the path of ...
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... James Caird inexorably towards its goal . ' So small was our boat and so great were the seas that often our sail flapped idly in the calm between the crests of two waves ' , recalled Shackleton . On 5 May 1916 , he spied what he thought ...
... James Caird inexorably towards its goal . ' So small was our boat and so great were the seas that often our sail flapped idly in the calm between the crests of two waves ' , recalled Shackleton . On 5 May 1916 , he spied what he thought ...
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... James Caird on a remote end of the island a few years later was bemused to find rats raiding his food scraps , a strangely welcome signature of his own civilisation . He doubted the evidence of his eyes : ' One would not expect to find ...
... James Caird on a remote end of the island a few years later was bemused to find rats raiding his food scraps , a strangely welcome signature of his own civilisation . He doubted the evidence of his eyes : ' One would not expect to find ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |