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The news at the ends of the earth : the print culture of polar exploration / Hester Blum.

e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection 2019 Available online

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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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