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Sara diane wheeler frsl born 20 march 1961 is an english travel author and biographer. Now, wheeler journeys to the opposite pole to create a definitive. This is sara wheelers account of a sixmonth odyssey which included christmas day at,000 feet with a llama sandwich, a sex hotel in santiago and a trip round cape horn delivering a coffin. Sara wheeler was brought up in bristol, england, and studied classics and modern languages at brasenose college, university of oxford. Terra incognita is a travelogue interspersed with the history of men on antarctica. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it.
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