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The news at the ends of the earth : the print culture of polar exploration / Hester Blum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blum, Hester, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Psychological aspects.
- Human ecology.
- Climatic changes.
- Psychological aspects.
- Survival--Psychological aspects.
- Survival.
- Explorers.
- History.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Polar regions--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
- Polar regions.
- Polar regions--History--Sources.
- Explorers--Polar regions--Diaries.
- Climatic changes--Psychological aspects.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Diaries.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxv, 298 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive the extreme polar climate.
- Contents:
- Extreme printing
- Arctic news
- Antarctic imprints
- Dead letter reckoning
- Inuit knowledge and Charles Francis Hall.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Blum, Hester. News at the ends of the earth.
- ISBN:
- 9781478004486
- 1478004487
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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