Antarctic Travel Writing and the Problematics of the Pristine: Two Australian Novelists' Narratives of Tourist Voyages to Antarctica

• Main Author: Leane, E
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2012
• Subjects: Language; Communication and Culture; Literary Studies; Australian Literature (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literature); Antarctic; Jenny; Traveller; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415374989/; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/83809

With the increasing popularity of Antarctic tourism in the last decade or so, new narratives of Antarctic encounter have begun to appear: narratives that attempt to understand how the individual traveller might relate to the continent and all it has come to symbolise. These texts,which as a group ca...