Ice and Death on the Northeast Passage
Abstract The Past Five Centuries of Arctic History are usually presented as a chronicle of exploration. History becomes a litany of the deeds of those (usually) men who travelled beyond the bounds of their own known world, returning with tales of hardship, adventure and amazing discoveries. Arctic g...
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Oxford University PressNew York, NY
2006
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0008 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/51979702/isbn-9780912807304-book-part-8.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract The Past Five Centuries of Arctic History are usually presented as a chronicle of exploration. History becomes a litany of the deeds of those (usually) men who travelled beyond the bounds of their own known world, returning with tales of hardship, adventure and amazing discoveries. Arctic geography becomes a gradually expanding “known world,” the advancing frontier of Europeans’ increasing awareness of the general outlines of coasts and rivers, routes of travel through ice or storm, and the animals and primitive tribes that occupied the country. Maps from these years of exploration depict the regions beyond this frontier as either snowy blanks or territories provisionally sketched with icy coastlines, towering mountain ranges, open oceans and strange peoples. |
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