Love being read to?

Categories: Observations | Kathleen M. Heideman | October 20, 2006

Download this classic Antarctic story to your ipod or computer’s iTunes and prepare to shiver: Jules Verne’s novel “An Antarctic Mystery, or Sphinx of the Ice Fields.”

Tip: it does help to have read Edgar Poe’s novel “Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” first.

Reading the Rake Magazine in Antarctica

Categories: Antarctic Field Notes | Kathleen M. Heideman | October 20, 2006



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Originally uploaded by miss_distance.

My friend Bill Jirsa took this (very late one night) in McMurdo Station, Antarctica. You can tell how late it is by how bright the sky is…… 24 hours of light on Antarctica in December!