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Discover more about the very top of the world: Collaboratively compiled and edited by Michael Bravo (Science and Development Research Group, Sott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University) and Sverker Sorlin (Chair of Environmental History at Umea University, Sweden), Narrating The Arctic: A Cultural History Of Nordic Scientific Practices is an outstanding collection of seminal essays by erudite authors concerning the history of arctic exploration. From Inuit exploratory ventures, to conflicting claims of history, to the Danish arctic research of eighty years ago, to Swedish arctic travels of a hundred and fifty years ago, Narrating The Arctic is a vivid, intense examination and scholarly analysis of the historical quest to venture onto, and discover more about, the very top of the world.
A vivid, intense examination and scholarly analysis: Collaboratively compiled and edited by Michael Bravo (Science and Development Research Group, Sott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge University) and Sverker Sorlin (Chair of Environmental History at Umea University, Sweden), Narrating The Arctic: A Cultural History Of Nordic Scientific Practices is an outstanding collection of seminal essays by erudite authors concerning the history of arctic exploration. From Inuit exploratory ventures, to conflicting claims of history, to the Danish arctic research of eighty years ago, to Swedish arctic travels of a hundred and fifty years ago, Narrating The Arctic is a vivid, intense examination and scholarly analysis of the historical quest to venture onto, and discover more about, the very top of the world.
| Binding: | Hardcover | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 919.804089395 | | EAN: | 9780881353853 | | ISBN: | 088135385X | | Number Of Pages: | 373 | | Publication Date: | 2002-05 |
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