Tim Bowden first visited and fell in love with Antarctica in 1989 and has been back five times. This is the very personal memoir of that first trip south.With a well-tuned sense of the absurd, Tim introduces the varied personalities and eccentricities of life on board the resupply ship Icebird. He describes the danger and excitement of travel to this continent of vast and overwhelming beauty. And he coaxes frank and often moving memories from the most reticent of his fellow travellers. Antarctica and Back in Sixty Days is quintessential Bowden.
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Höhe: 230 mm
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978-1-86508-099-4 (9781865080994)
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Tim Bowden is an acclaimed oral historian, broadcaster, and radio and television documentary maker. His six-part television series, 'Breaking the Ice', continues to receive accolades. The Silence Calling, the definitive history of Australians in Antarctica, was publishing to exceptional reviews. His other books include Penelope Goes West, The Way My Father Tells It: The Story of an Australian Life and One Crowded Hour: Neil Davis, Combat Cameraman 1934-85.
ForewordAcknowledgmentsAuthor's PrefaceIntroductionI am Equipped for the Great AdventureNasty Happenings in the NightStorms and Superstitions at SeaWe Enter the Pack IceMusing on Whale Slaughter and Japanese Chopstick-Based Research ProjectsFirst Visit to Mawson StationVoyage Six Ice Edge MegawankBored Politicians on IceNearly Nipped by the IceWe Depart Mawson StationOil on Icy WatersWe Adjust to a Half Empty ShipMawson Ice Edge Again!We Reach Mawson at LastThe Difficulty of Farewelling a Continent
