In the Heart of the Arctics
Author: Nicholas Senn
Publisher: Chicago : W. B. Conkey Company
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 500
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Publisher: Chicago : W. B. Conkey Company
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher P. Heuer
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 2019-05-14
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1942130147
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination. European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things: strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art: the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally “abstract,” the far North—a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination—offered more than new stuff to be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a “non-site,” spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and texts—and this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over art's very legitimacy. In Into the White, Heuer uses five case studies to probe how the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earth—long before the nineteenth century Romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, he argues, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and impossible to be mastered, something beyond the idea of image itself.
Author: Sunniva Sorby
Publisher:
Published: 2021-09-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781956470031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hearts in the Ice is a story of adventure and action, courage and connection, sustainability and survival. Hilde and Sunniva will take you inside their personal accounts of a year of surviving and thriving in a rustic trappers cabin 140 km away from the nearest town-a pivotal moment in Svalbard history; a quick peek at the female explorers who came before them and a testament to the power of community and collaboration.
Author: Stephen R. Bown
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0306822830
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Among the explorers made famous for revealing hitherto impenetrable cultures-T. E. Lawrence and Wilfred Thesiger in the Middle East, Richard Burton in Africa-Knud Rasmussen stands out not only for his physical bravery but also for the beauty of his writing. Part Danish, part Inuit, Rasmussen made a courageous three-year journey by dog sled from Greenland to Alaska to reveal the common origins of all circumpolar peoples. Lovers of Arctic adventure, exotic cultures, and timeless legend will relish this gripping tale by Stephen R. Bown, known as "Canada's Simon Winchester."
Author: Allan Fowler
Publisher: Childrens Press
Published: 2001-03-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780516270845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses people who live in the Arctic regions of the world and how it affects their lives.
Author: Peter Stark
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781580800662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A selection of writings that reflect the author's fascination with snow, the Arctic, and winter sports relates his experiences as he attempts ski jumping, runs the luge, and spends his summer vacation in Greenland.
Author: Nicholas Senn
Publisher: Palala Press
Published: 2016-05-12
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781356461288
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Author: Nicholas Senn
Publisher:
Published: 2015-07-20
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781331902058
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from In the Heart of the Arctics In the Heart of the Arctics was written by Nicholas Senn in 1907. This is a 483 page book, containing 78846 words and 80 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Mary Albanese
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781935347170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Journeys to the Edge of the Map A young upstate New York woman begins the adventure of a lifetime as she moves away from her safe and conventional path. Mary Albanese is unable to resist the excitement and challenge of becoming a geological explorer in Alaska, where she maps remote wilderness areas and journeys to the depths of her own heart. Midnight Sun, Arctic Moon is a memoir full of accentric characters with human failings. Its landscape reveals the courage and sacrifice of the author's "family" of visionary explorers who mapped the wild state. The author persists in the face of hardships and tragedy, surviving dangers most people will never face even in their worst nightmares. Book jacket.
Author: Nicholas 1844-1908 Senn
Publisher:
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781373388964
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