North by degree : new perspectives on Arctic exploration / Susan A. Kaplan and Robert McCracken Peck, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Susan A., 1951- editor.

Peck, Robert McCracken, 1952- editor.

Stam, David H., associated name, former owner.

Stam, Deirdre Corcoran, associated name, former owner.

American Philosophical Society, publisher.

Series:

Lightning Rod Press ; volume 8.

American Philosophical Society, Lightning Rod Press ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920--Travel--Arctic regions.

Peary, Robert E.

Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920--Anniversaries.

Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration.

Arctic regions.

Polar regions--Discovery and exploration.

Polar regions.

Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920.

Anniversaries.

Discoveries in geography.

Travel.

Arctic Regions.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

xviii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : American Philosophical Society, [2013]

Summary:

"North by Degree: New Perspectives on Arctic Exploration is a stimulating volume of papers on the history of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Arctic exploration. The contributors have contextualized expeditions, examining the social, cultural, technological, and environmental settings in which endeavors were conceived and carried out, and how they were described and understood by the public. A conference honoring Robert E. Peary's historic 1908-09 North Pole Expedition and recognizing the third International Polar Year (2007-09) brought together researches from a variety of disciplines whose work touches on different facets of Arctic exploration. Susan A. Kaplan (The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum at Bowdoin College) and Robert McCracken Peck (Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia) invited the Philadelphia Area Center for the History of Science (PACHS) and the American Philosophical Society (APS) to partner with them. "North by Degree: An International Conference on Arctic Exploration" was a result of the collaboration and took place in Philadelphia in May 2008. The papers in this volume are a subset of those presented at the conference and are authored by scholars from many disciplines, including English, art history, anthropology, archaeology, history, ethnohistory, and Native American studies. The papers cast light on aspects of exploration not examined in most biographies of explorers, official expedition narratives, or overviews of the history of Arctic exploration."--Pub. desc.

Contents:

"The men of prominence are 'among those present' for him" : how and why America's elites made Robert Peary a national icon / Lyle Dick

Frederick Cook : a reappraisal / Michael F. Robinson

"The advancement of exploration along scientific lines" : the American Geographical Society and the Arctic, 1851-1950 / Frederick E. Nelson

Toward an early twentieth-century culture of northern Canadian exploration / Tina Adcock

"The desolate shores of a frozen zone" : American whalers in Cumberland Sound, 1851-68 / Karen Routledge

To be Black and American : Matthew Henson and his post-Pole lecture tour, 1909-10 / Emma Bonanomi

Furs and satin : understanding Inughuit women's roles in culture contact through clothing / Genevieve M. LeMoine and Christyann M. Darwent

"Congering" the past : the books of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-84), before and after / David H. Stam

Homemaking, snowbabies, and the search for the North Pole : Josephine Diebitsch Peary and the making of national history / Patricia Pierce Erikson

Arctic imagery and decorative arts / Robert McCracken Peck

The polar trek and the children's book : from Parry to Parry

1825-1995 / Helen Reddick

Showmen and explorer-showmen on the panoramic stage / Russell A. Potter

"The balloonatic" : technological innovation or inflated showbusiness? : Commander Cheyne and the spectacle of polar flight / Huw Lewis-Jones

"If it had been a common ship" : the first northward voyage of the Arctic steamship Roosevelt, 1905-06 / Anne Witty

Riding shortwaves and icy seas : practicing science and deploying technology in the Arctic, 1913-24 / Susan A. Kaplan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy G626 .N67 2013 gift of David and Deirdre Stam, 2024.

ISBN:

9781606189238

1606189239

OCLC:

841198203