A collection of fascinating stories drawn from the author's various experiences in Antarctica offers insightful depictions of the colorful characters who come to Antarctica, as well as descriptions of the humorous bureaucracy of the bases on the continent. By the author of Cold Beer and Crocodiles. Original.
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Roff Smith is a New Hampshire native who moved to Australia in 1982. He became a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Sunday Age, and ultimately an award-winning senior correspondent for Time magazine, a position he resigned to undertake the trek chronicled in his first book, Cold Beer and Crocodiles (National Geographic Adventure Press). He is the author of Australia: Journey Through a Timeless Land as well as a National Geographic Traveler guide to his adopted country.
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Octavo, paperback,208 pp.WAS $33. Forbidding, vast, spectacular, lonely: each is a word that springs to mind when we think of Antarctica. A world of endless ice, remote mountain ranges, and weather so fierce that only the hardiest of explorers could hope to meet its many challenges. But there's another Antarctica, too, that comes alive in Roff Smith's vivid pages, a place of extraordinary beauty that can capture the imagination and lure men and women back year after year. Artikel-Nr. 28566
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