摘要
AFTER a lifetime of work in a profession that entails making the right acquaintances in the right places, I’d racked up my fair share of frequent flier miles to just about every continent. Not a single one, however, was courtesy of Antarctica. In fact, it wasn’t until a five-year posting during the 1970s to China’s Permanent Mission Office to the United Nations that I first learned about the continent. It was at meetings of the UN Seabed Committee that I
AFTER a lifetime of work in a profession that entails mak- ing the right acquaintances in the right places, I＇d racked up my fair share of frequent flier miles to just about every continent. Not a single one, however, was courtesy of Antarctica. In fact, it wasn＇t until a five-year posting during the 197os to China＇s Permanent Mission Office to the United Nations that I first learned about the continent.
