The bothersome details of the world: Richard Byrd, little America and the problem of retreat
In 1934, Admiral Richard E. Byrd retreated from his crew at the remote Little America encampment in Antarctica to an even more isolated setting: a small underground shack on ‘the dark immensity of the Ross Ice Barrier, on a line between Little America and the South Pole’. Byrd remained there in soli...
Published in: | Journal for Cultural Research |
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
2017
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Online Access: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/69307/ https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1370491 https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/69307/8/The%20Bothersome%20Details%20of%20the%20World%20ORCA%20pre-publication%20version%20July%202015%20--%20Neil%20Badmington.pdf |