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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Main Author: McGhee, Robert
Format: Book Part
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Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 2006
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Arctic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0001
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0001 2023-12-31T10:03:12+01:00 Prelude: An Arctic Vision McGhee, Robert 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0001 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/51979677/isbn-9780912807304-book-part-1.pdf unknown Oxford University PressNew York, NY The Last Imaginary Place page 7-10 ISBN 9780192807304 9781383002928 book-chapter 2006 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0001 2023-12-06T09:00:48Z 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. Book Part Arctic Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 7 10
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description 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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