Les pôles, territoires de l’imaginaire où science et fiction s’entremêlent

• Published in: Projets de paysage
• Main Author: Rémy, Frédérique
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: École nationale supérieure du paysage de Versailles-Marseille 2022
• Subjects: pôles terrestres; imaginaire; utopie; glace; mer libre; terrestrial pole; imaginary; utopia; ice; sea; litt; lang; Arctic; Buffon; Jules; North Pole; Verne; Arctique*; Pôle Nord
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/paysage/26394

The earth’s poles nourished the imagination for a long time. For the protestant utopians of the end of the XVIIth century as for the novelists of the XIXth century, the pole is a magic, enchanting place where the weather is fine. Sailor’s tales having seen the sea free of ice near the North pole are...