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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Pàgina 77
... continents as vast icefloes , ' shedding fragments which fall behind , exactly as a drifting iceberg might ground and calve and drift on again'.22 23 The mutability of the globe that we now accept Great South Lands 77.
... continents as vast icefloes , ' shedding fragments which fall behind , exactly as a drifting iceberg might ground and calve and drift on again'.22 23 The mutability of the globe that we now accept Great South Lands 77.
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... drift ' from early in the twentieth century had not been able to suggest the means by which landmasses moved around the globe . Wegener had been rebuffed and ridiculed when he sug- gested that such awesome mobility might be credited to ...
... drift ' from early in the twentieth century had not been able to suggest the means by which landmasses moved around the globe . Wegener had been rebuffed and ridiculed when he sug- gested that such awesome mobility might be credited to ...
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... drift north into equatorial seaways , pushed early humans out onto the plains , encouraged them to walk upright , and demanded they live on their wits . By the time of the last ice age , fully modern humans ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) had ...
... drift north into equatorial seaways , pushed early humans out onto the plains , encouraged them to walk upright , and demanded they live on their wits . By the time of the last ice age , fully modern humans ( Homo sapiens sapiens ) had ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |