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

Blum, Hester,

The News at the Ends of the Earth : The Print Culture of Polar Exploration / Hester Blum. - 1 online resource (324 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Extreme printing -- Arctic news -- Antarctic imprints -- Dead letter reckoning -- Inuit knowledge and Charles Francis Hall.

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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.

9781478004486




Expedition
Berichterstattung
Survival--Psychological aspects.
Human ecology--Psychological aspects.
Explorers.
Discoveries in geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
TRAVEL--Parks & Campgrounds.
TRAVEL--Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL--Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL--Budget.
SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Geography.
Écologie humaine--Aspect psychologique.
Climat--Changements--Aspect psychologique.
Habiletes de survie--Aspect psychologique.
Explorateurs--Regions polaires--Journaux intimes.
Human ecology--Psychological aspects.
Climatic changes--Psychological aspects.
Survival--Psychological aspects.
Explorers--Polar regions--Diaries.


Polargebiete
Polar regions.
Regions polaires--Histoire--Sources.
Regions polaires--Decouverte et exploration--Sources.
Polar regions--History--Sources.
Polar regions--Discovery and exploration--Sources.


Sources.
History.
Diaries.
Electronic books.