News at the ends of the earth: the print culture of polar exploration
The news from the ends of the Earth is rarely good at present. Warming waters, retreating seaice, endangered and invasive species, runaway glaciers and disintegrating ice shelves are whatwe have come to expect in daily headlines about the polar regions. With the Arctic and Antarcticso central to the...
| Published in: | Studies in Travel Writing |
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| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in Travel Writing
2020
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13645145.2020.1741243 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/138509 |
| Summary: | The news from the ends of the Earth is rarely good at present. Warming waters, retreating seaice, endangered and invasive species, runaway glaciers and disintegrating ice shelves are whatwe have come to expect in daily headlines about the polar regions. With the Arctic and Antarcticso central to the climate crisis, a book about the printed ephemera of nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century Anglo-American polar expeditions might seem out of step with current concerns.In News at the Ends of the Earth, Hester Blum aims to turn this perception on its head,arguing that these seemingly quirky textual artefacts have much to teach us about our ownsurvival in a period characterised by climate extremes and accelerated environmental change. |
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