E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten
Simpson-Housley Antarctica
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-1-134-89121-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Exploration, Perception and Metaphor
E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-134-89121-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A scene so wildly and awfully desolate.it cannot fail to impress me with gloomy thoughts" - so Scott perceived the stark Antarctic landscape in 1905.
Antarctica traces images of the continent from early invented maps of Terra Australis Incognita up to Amundsen's arrival at 90 degrees South. Approaching Antarctica from sea and then land, the book analyses the differing perceptions of beauty and terror experienced by explorers, the stories they brought back and the power of new images refashioned at home.
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Terra Australia's Incognita. 2. The Seaman's View. 3. The Landsman's View. 4. Problem of the Antartic Navigation and Perception: The Compass, longitude and Miricles. 5. A Perception of the Imagination? 6. The Enigma of Wilkes Land. 7. A Local habitation and a Name or an Airy Nothing? The Case of Bouvet Island. 8. Antartic Seascapes and Landscapes of Fear and Desolation. 9. Aesthetic Antartica. 10. Myth, Metaphor and Polar Poetry.
