How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic. : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2019, no. 16: How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic.

For many of us “southerners,” we may imagine the Arctic landscape as a desolate frozen landscape. At the historic roots of this perception is the visual culture of Arctic exploration throughout a long nineteenth century which represented the Canadian Arctic as devoid of its diverse flora. Many explo...

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Main Author:	Gismondi, Chris
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How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic. : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2019, no. 16: How the Arctic Became White: Victorian Explorers and the Erasure of Botany in the Canadian Arctic.

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