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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Main Author: McGhee, Robert
Format: Book Part
Language:unknown
Published: Oxford University PressNew York, NY 2006
Subjects:
Arctic
Northeast Passage
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0008
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spelling croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0008 2023-12-31T10:03:12+01:00 Ice and Death on the Northeast Passage McGhee, Robert 2006 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0008 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/51979702/isbn-9780912807304-book-part-8.pdf unknown Oxford University PressNew York, NY The Last Imaginary Place page 130-152 ISBN 9780192807304 9781383002928 book-chapter 2006 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807304.003.0008 2023-12-06T08:50:01Z 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. Book Part Arctic Northeast Passage Oxford University Press (via Crossref) 130 152
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