Empire Antarctica

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Empire Antarctica

Wydawnictwo: canongate

ISBN: 978-18-3726-391-2

ISBN bez myślników: 9781837263912

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2025-09-11

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

Empire Antarctica

Wydawnictwo: counterpoint

ISBN: 978-16-1902-340-6

ISBN bez myślników: 9781619023406

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 282

Data wydania: 2014-08-26

Język: angielski (Stany Zjednoczone)

Empire Antarctica

Wydawnictwo: Vintage

ISBN: 978-00-9956-596-3

ISBN bez myślników: 9780099565963

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 288

Data wydania: 2013-11-07

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

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Empire Antarctica

Gavin Francis

Pierwsze wydanie: 2013-11-07

* WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2013 * *Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Prize* * Shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize * * Shortlisted for Banff Adventure Travel Prize * * Shortlisted for Saltire Book of the Year Award * Gavin Francis fulfilled a lifetime's ambition when he spent fourteen months as the base-camp doctor at Halley, a profoundly isolated British research station on the Caird Coast of Antarctica. So remote, it is said to be easier to evacuate a casualty from the International Space Station than it is to bring someone out of Halley in winter. Antarctica offered a year of unparalleled silence and solitude, with few distractions and very little human history, but also a rare oppurtunity to live among emperor penguins, the only species truly at home in the Antarctic. Following the penguins throughout the year -- from a summer of perpetual sunshine to months of winter darkness -- Gavin Francis explores a world of great beauty conjured from the simplest elements, the hardship of living at 50°C below zero and the unexpected comfort that the penguin community bring.