The Spectral Arctic : A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of A...
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ftunivbogotajtl:oai:expeditiorepositorio.utadeo.edu.co:20.500.12010/18501 2023-05-15T14:16:51+02:00 The Spectral Arctic : A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration McCorristine, Shane 2018 326 páginas application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/18501 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32403 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12854/32403 https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352452 eng eng UCL Press 978–1–78735–245–2 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32403 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12010/18501 doi:10.14324/111.9781787352452 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Abierto (Texto Completo) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Arctic exploration Spectral arctic Franklin's lost expedition Antártida Descubrimientos geográficos Exploradores http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33 2018 ftunivbogotajtl https://doi.org/20.500.12010/18501 https://doi.org/20.500.12854/32403 https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352452 2022-11-17T07:42:48Z Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships. Other/Unknown Material Antártida Arctic Iceberg* inuit Northwest passage Expeditio - Repositorio Institucional Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (UTADEO) Arctic Northwest Passage |
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Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships. |
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The Spectral Arctic : A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration |
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The Spectral Arctic : A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration |
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