Prelude: An Arctic Vision
Abstract I First Became Aware of the Arctic during the 1950s, when I was a teenager whose world was limited to the well-tended farmlands and tame urban environments of Ontario. It is hard to remember how exotic most remote places seemed to us in those days, when air travel was a rare luxury and tele...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
2006
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0001 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/51979677/isbn-9780912807304-book-part-1.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract I First Became Aware of the Arctic during the 1950s, when I was a teenager whose world was limited to the well-tended farmlands and tame urban environments of Ontario. It is hard to remember how exotic most remote places seemed to us in those days, when air travel was a rare luxury and television offered only a few blurry channels depicting life in New York, London or occasionally Toronto. The little we knew of distant environments came mostly from books and movies, and from the imaginary journeys that they stimulated. Our ignorance gave travel writers the freedom to create visions of romantic landscapes and exotic peoples that at times were only tenuously related to reality. |
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