The News at the Ends of the Earth : The Print Culture of Polar Exploration

• Tác giả: Hester Blum
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1478004486
• Thông tin xuất bản: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (324 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 348085
• Chủ đề: 1. Berichterstattung; 2. Expedition; 3. Explorers; 4. Human ecology--Psychological aspects; 5. Survival--Psychological aspects

Tóm tắt

Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive the extreme polar climate.