From Conquest to Cognition: 20th Century Exploration Narratives

Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; Let us journey to a lonely land I know. There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there’s a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling. let us go. So wrote Robert Service, bard of the North, in 1907. Although the allure of di...

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Main Authors: Richard C. Davis, Er Mackenzie
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.541.6735
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic34-1-85.pdf
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Summary:Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; Let us journey to a lonely land I know. There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there’s a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling. let us go. So wrote Robert Service, bard of the North, in 1907. Although the allure of distant horizons has changed since