The Arctic Playground of Europe: Sir Martin Conway's Svalbard

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Ryall, Anka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2015
• Subjects: Svalbard; the Arctic; tourism and travel writing; landscape aesthetics; Sir William Martin Conway; John Ruskin; Lord Dufferin; rugged gentility; homosocial domesticity; VDP::Humaniora: 000::Kulturvitenskap: 060::Nordisk kulturvitenskap: 061; VDP::Humanities: 000::Cultural science: 060::Nordic cultural science: 061; Arctic; Conway; Main Island; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/8675; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.3424

Published version. Source at http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3424 . The development of tourism is a significant aspect of the processes of modernity in the High Arctic. This article discusses the British art historian and mountaineer Sir William Martin Conway's two travelogues, The First Crossing...