Download or read book Geographers written by Elizabeth Baigent and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 37 explores the concept of distinction in geography. Through the lives of six geographers working in Brazil, North America, Europe and Réunion, it investigates what distinction consists of, how we identify and celebrate it and how it relates to quotidian practices in the discipline. The volume highlights the continuing importance of biography and the International Geographical Union in recording and assessing distinction. It also considers the relevance of personal networks for the circulation and translation of distinguished geographical knowledge, and how this knowledge can underpin applied projects and critical appraisal of geographical scholarship, both at a national and sub-national level. Gendered notions of distinction are also addressed, particularly through June Sheppard, who found limited recognition for her work as a result of gendered expectations within the discipline and society at large. By reflecting on how we locate distinguished geographers and tell their histories, Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Volume 37 makes an important contribution to fostering less canonical work in historical geography.

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Download or read book La Premi re Ascension du Mont Blanc version Couleur written by Eric Vola and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18h32, le 8 août 1786, le paysan Jacques Balmat et le docteur Michel-Gabriel Paccard parviennent au sommet du mont Blanc. L'association de ces deux hommes aurait dû fonctionner parfaitement. Leurs motivations étaient différentes et ils n'étaient pas concurrents car Paccard payait Balmat pour sa tâche de porteur et lui laissait la totalité de la récompense promise par de Saussure dont il n'avait nul besoin. Alors, qu'est-ce qui tourna à l'aigre et pourquoi pendant deux siècles et encore aujourd'hui, LA VERITÉ EST-ELLE SI DIFFICILE À OBTENIR ? Eric Shipton : « Leur ascension fut une réalisation stupéfiante de courage et de détermination, l'une des plus grandes dans les annales de l'alpinisme. Elle fut accomplie par des hommes qui non seulement étaient en terrain inconnu, mais sur un itinéraire considéré comme impossible par les guides. » T. Graham Brown et Sir Gavin de Beer qui ont si magistralement analysé les mensonges de Balmat, n'ont jamais « condamné » l'homme, honorant sa prouesse et terminant leur livre en citant Lord Minto qui écrivit dans son journal du vivant de Balmat, mais avant que la légende ne renaisse avec l'aide de Dumas : « Quelle que soit la part précise de chacun dans la découverte de la voie, tous deux ont, sans contestation possible, le droit de revendiquer l'honneur d'avoir réalisé l'une des plus audacieuses des entreprises jamais réalisées, et d'avoir eu l'audace d'affronter le danger d'une nuit passée dans la neige à une altitude où l'opinion établie était qu'il était impossible de survivre au froid. »

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Download or read book Routes and Roots written by Elizabeth DeLoughrey and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth DeLoughrey invokes the cyclical model of the continual movement and rhythm of the ocean (‘tidalectics’) to destabilize the national, ethnic, and even regional frameworks that have been the mainstays of literary study. The result is a privileging of alter/native epistemologies whereby island cultures are positioned where they should have been all along—at the forefront of the world historical process of transoceanic migration and landfall. The research, determination, and intellectual dexterity that infuse this nuanced and meticulous reading of Pacific and Caribbean literature invigorate and deepen our interest in and appreciation of island literature. —Vilsoni Hereniko, University of Hawai‘i "Elizabeth DeLoughrey brings contemporary hybridity, diaspora, and globalization theory to bear on ideas of indigeneity to show the complexities of ‘native’ identities and rights and their grounded opposition as ‘indigenous regionalism’ to free-floating globalized cosmopolitanism. Her models are instructive for all postcolonial readers in an age of transnational migrations." —Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia Routes and Roots is the first comparative study of Caribbean and Pacific Island literatures and the first work to bring indigenous and diaspora literary studies together in a sustained dialogue. Taking the "tidalectic" between land and sea as a dynamic starting point, Elizabeth DeLoughrey foregrounds geography and history in her exploration of how island writers inscribe the complex relation between routes and roots. The first section looks at the sea as history in literatures of the Atlantic middle passage and Pacific Island voyaging, theorizing the transoceanic imaginary. The second section turns to the land to examine indigenous epistemologies in nation-building literatures. Both sections are particularly attentive to the ways in which the metaphors of routes and roots are gendered, exploring how masculine travelers are naturalized through their voyages across feminized lands and seas. This methodology of charting transoceanic migration and landfall helps elucidate how theories and people travel, positioning island cultures in the world historical process. In fact, DeLoughrey demonstrates how these tropical island cultures helped constitute the very metropoles that deemed them peripheral to modernity. Fresh in its ideas, original in its approach, Routes and Roots engages broadly with history, anthropology, and feminist, postcolonial, Caribbean, and Pacific literary and cultural studies. It productively traverses diaspora and indigenous studies in a way that will facilitate broader discussion between these often segregated disciplines.

Download or read book La Pemi re Ascension du Mont Blanc version Noir and Blanc written by Eric Vola and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18h32, le 8 août 1786, le paysan Jacques Balmat et le docteur Michel-Gabriel Paccard parviennent au sommet du mont Blanc. L'association de ces deux hommes aurait dû fonctionner parfaitement. Leurs motivations étaient différentes et ils n'étaient pas concurrents car Paccard payait Balmat pour sa tâche de porteur et lui laissait la totalité de la récompense promise par de Saussure dont il n'avait nul besoin. Alors, qu'est-ce qui tourna à l'aigre et pourquoi pendant deux siècles et encore aujourd'hui, LA VERITÉ EST-ELLE SI DIFFICILE À OBTENIR ? Eric Shipton : « Leur ascension fut une réalisation stupéfiante de courage et de détermination, l'une des plus grandes dans les annales de l'alpinisme. Elle fut accomplie par des hommes qui non seulement étaient en terrain inconnu, mais sur un itinéraire considéré comme impossible par les guides. » T. Graham Brown et Sir Gavin de Beer qui ont si magistralement analysé les mensonges de Balmat, n'ont jamais « condamné » l'homme, honorant sa prouesse et terminant leur livre en citant Lord Minto qui écrivit dans son journal du vivant de Balmat, mais avant que la légende ne renaisse avec l'aide de Dumas : « Quelle que soit la part précise de chacun dans la découverte de la voie, tous deux ont, sans contestation possible, le droit de revendiquer l'honneur d'avoir réalisé l'une des plus audacieuses des entreprises jamais réalisées, et d'avoir eu l'audace d'affronter le danger d'une nuit passée dans la neige à une altitude où l'opinion établie était qu'il était impossible de survivre au froid. »

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Download or read book Mont Blanc written by Jacques Perret and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En laissant la parole aux acteurs de la conquête du massif du Mont-Blanc, cet ouvrage donne le récit de quinze premières ascensions historiques, de quinze sommets mythiques. Sur un ton neutre ou conquérant, vif, polémique ou désuet, voici décrits les cheminements originels, les tentatives et les échecs, l'instant où les pionniers foulèrent pour la première fois le Buet, le mont Blanc du Tacul, l'aiguille du Midi, celle d'Argentière, le Dolent, la Verte et les Drus, les Jurasses, le Grépon, les Grands-Charmoz, la République ... Et plus principalement, après le brassage de deux cents ans de polémique et de relations partiales, cette anthologie livre le récit le plus exact qui puisse être de la première ascension du mont Blanc, inédit en français, par Michel Paccard (d'après ses notes) et Jacques Balmat.

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