Download or read book Description of Summer and Winter Views of the Polar Regions written by Robert Burford and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the beauty and wonder of the polar regions with this stunning visual guide to the summer and winter landscapes of the Arctic and Antarctic. Based on the famous expedition of James Clark Ross in 1848-9, this book includes breathtaking panoramas and detailed descriptions of the flora, fauna, and climate of the far North and South. A must-read for anyone interested in the natural world and the history of polar exploration. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Description of Summer and Winter Views of the Polar Regions written by Robert Burford and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of Summer and Winter Views of the Polar Regions as Seen During the Expedition of Capt James Clark Ross in 1848 9 written by Robert Burford and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Winter in the Arctic Regions and Summer in the Antarctic Regions etc With maps and illustrations written by Charles Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Spectral Arctic written by Shane McCorristine and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Download or read book Imagining the Arctic written by Huw Lewis-Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Arctic explores the culture and politics of polar exploration and the making of its heroes. Leading explorers, the celebrity figures of their day, went to great lengths to convince their contemporaries of the merits of polar voyages. Much of exploration was in fact theatre: a series of performances to capture public attention and persuade governments to finance ambitious proposals. The achievements of explorers were promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became the subject of huge attention. Huw Lewis-Jones draws upon recovered texts and striking images, many reproduced for the first time since the nineteenth century, to show how exploration was projected through a series of spectacular visuals, helping us to reconstruct the ways that heroes and the wilderness were imagined. Elegantly written and richly illustrated, Imagining the Arctic offers original insights into our understanding of exploration and its pull on the public imagination.
Download or read book Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages written by Eavan O'Dochartaigh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering a wealth of archival information, Eavan O'Dochartaigh gives fresh and surprising insight into the Victorian image of the Arctic.
Download or read book The Polar Regions written by Sir John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arctic Winter Arctic Summer written by Susan Canizares and published by Scholastic Incorporated. This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and simple text contrast Arctic landscapes and animals in winter and summer.
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Download or read book Panoramas 1787 1900 Vol 3 written by Laurie Garrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The panorama is primarily a visual medium, but a variety of print matter mediated its viewing; adverts, reviews, handbills and a descriptive programme accompanied by an annotated key to the canvas. The short accounts, programs, reviews, articles and lectures collected here are the primary historical sources left to us.
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Download or read book The Arctic in the British imagination 1818 1914 written by Rob David and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
Download or read book Solar Sailing written by Colin R. McInnes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solar sailing offers the possibility of low-cost long-distance missions, impossible for any other type of conventional spacecraft. The book provides a detailed account of solar sailing, at a high technical level but in a way accessible to the scientifically informed layman. Solar sail orbital dynamics and solar radiation pressure form the foundations of the book, but the engineering design of solar sails is also considered, along with potential mission applications. This book introduces the subject and at the same time provides a technical reference source.
Download or read book Polar Pioneers written by Maurice James Ross and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1829 he mounted a private expedition to search for the passage, during which he became trapped in the Canadian Arctic and survived a four-year ordeal of isolation and hardship. He proved that whatever his shortcomings as an explorer, he could never be accused of lacking courage.
Download or read book Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia Victoria written by Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geography of the Polar Regions written by Otto Nordenskjöld and published by New York : American Geographical Society. This book was released on 1928 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
