Antarctic Comrades

Antarctic Comrades
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Book Synopsis Antarctic Comrades by : Gilbert Dewart

Download or read book Antarctic Comrades written by Gilbert Dewart and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctic Comrades chronicles an American scientist's adventure with a Soviet research team in 1960. This book is Gilbert Dewart's description of the work accomplished at the Mirnyy research station and of a four-month summertime trek inland to Vostok, another Soviet station in the coldest part of Antarctica. It illuminates an event during the Eisenhower/Kennedy/Khrushchev era, an early attempt at glasnost, and the evolution of the international scientific community.


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