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Viser: South Pole - Nature and Culture
South Pole
Nature and Culture
Elizabeth Leane
(2016)
Sprog: Engelsk
om ca. 10 hverdage
Detaljer om varen
- Paperback: 224 sider
- Udgiver: Reaktion Books, Limited (April 2016)
- ISBN: 9781780235967
Leane details the important challenges that the South Pole poses to humanity, asking what it can teach us about ourselves and our relationship with our planet. She examines its allure for explorers such as Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, not to mention the myriad writers and artists who have attempted to capture its strange, inhospitable blankness. She considers the Pole's advantages for climatologists and other scientists as well as the absurdities and banalities of human interaction with this place. Ranging from the present all the way back to the ancient Greeks, she offers a fascinating--and lavishly illustrated--story about one of the strangest and most important places on Earth.
1. Where is the South Pole?
2. Maps and Mythologies
3. Polar Imaginations
4. Pole-hunting
5. Settling in at 'Ninety South'
6. Highest, Coldest, Driest
7. Looking Up and Looking Down
8. South Polar Politics
9. Pictures of Nothingness
10. Adventurers and Extreme Tourists Chronology References Select Bibliography Associations and Websites Acknowledgments
Photo Acknowledgments
Index