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Lädt ... In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimagevon Jay Ruzesky
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Jay Ruzesky recalls a childhood of snow caves, literary ambitions, and a fascination with polar exploration that was ignited by the genes he shares with famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. As a boy, Ruzesky was captivated by Amundsen's diaries: an Antarctic exploration aboard Belgica when Amundsen was a twenty-five-year-old mate bent on earning his stripes; his historic navigation of the Northwest Passage from 1903 to 1906 where he intentionally froze in with his ship Gjoa over the winters to drift with the pack ice; and his triumph onboard his ship Fram to be the first to reach the South Pole on December 14, 1911. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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 Google Books — Lädt ...GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)919.8904History and Geography Geography and Travel Geography of and travel in Australasia, Pacific Ocean islands, Atlantic Ocean islands, Arctic islands, Antarctica and on extraterrestrial worlds Polar regions AntarcticaKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt: (4.5)
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"When I imagined Antarctica, I imagined it in grey-scale: black water, white snow and grey sky, but I couldn't have been more wrong. The palette is immense. The predominant colour is blue and until I came here, I had no idea how many shades of blue are possible. Glaciated ice, sky, light on wet rock - all of these textures are responsible for variations of a theme of blue. There are also shades of green and purple, and the shining sun opens a new box of yellows and reds. What is most amazing to me is the way the light makes mischief with everything. It changes moment by moment. There might be opaque light through a thick layer of dark cloud, which on the the wet west coast of Canada would mean I was in for a dark day. But in Antarctica, the sky is big like a prairie sky, and if there is even a small crack in the clouds, a hint of light will get in and then bounce between the ice-covered landscape and the clouds, thereby changing into something more silver. And it seems most days the weather changes with staggering frequency. A dark morning quickly develops holes in it and before long one can see a straight path to the heavens." (