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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... historian , are ' aromatic with old romance ' . ' Every fragment of land encountered by navigators in southern seas was hopefully sketched in as the northern promontory of the long - awaited continent , the tip of the iceberg , as it ...
... historian , are ' aromatic with old romance ' . ' Every fragment of land encountered by navigators in southern seas was hopefully sketched in as the northern promontory of the long - awaited continent , the tip of the iceberg , as it ...
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... historian Stephen Pyne begins his journey to Antarctica ' in The Ice . To enter Greater Antarctica ' , he continues , ' is to be drawn into a slow maelstrom of ice . Ice is the beginning of Antarctica and ice is its end . ' No other ...
... historian Stephen Pyne begins his journey to Antarctica ' in The Ice . To enter Greater Antarctica ' , he continues , ' is to be drawn into a slow maelstrom of ice . Ice is the beginning of Antarctica and ice is its end . ' No other ...
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... historians - Donald Worster , Alfred Crosby , William Cronon , Richard White , Stephen Pyne , Carolyn Merchant have all been strongly influenced by ecological concepts . Environmental historians have followed the fashions of ecology ...
... historians - Donald Worster , Alfred Crosby , William Cronon , Richard White , Stephen Pyne , Carolyn Merchant have all been strongly influenced by ecological concepts . Environmental historians have followed the fashions of ecology ...
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Being Australian: Narratives of national identity Catriona Elder Previsualització no disponible - 2007 |