The news at the ends of the earth
the print culture of polar exploration
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Word Count
74,500 words, Guess
Page Count
298 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenewsatendsofeart00blum
- ISBN-101478003227
- ISBN-101478003871
- ISBN-139781478003229
- ISBN-139781478003878
and 5 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2018040994
- OCLC Control Number1037807202
- Better World Books9781478003229
- Better World Books9781478003878
- Open LibraryOL27002173M
Classifications
- DDC910.911
- LCCG580 .B58 2019
- LCCG580.B58 2019
Description
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In 'The News at the Ends of the Earth' Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.
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