Author: Polly Gould
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-12-10
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1350158348
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Antarctica, that icy wasteland and extreme environment at the ends of the earth, was - at the beginning of the 20th century - the last frontier of Victorian imperialism, a territory subjected to heroic and sometimes desperate exploration. Now, at the start of the 21st century, Antarctica is the vulnerable landscape behind iconic images of climate change. In this genre-crossing narrative Gould takes us on a journey to the South Pole, through art and archive. Through the life and tragic death of Edward Wilson, polar explorer, doctor, scientist and artist, and his watercolours, and through the work of a pioneer of modern anthropology and opponent of scientific racism, Franz Boas, Gould exposes the legacies of colonialism and racial and gendered identities of the time. Antarctica, the White Continent, far from being a blank - and white - canvas, is revealed to be full of colour. Gould argues that the medium matters and that the practices of observation in art, anthropology and science determine how we see and what we know. Stories of exploration and open-air watercolour painting, of weather experiments and ethnographic collecting, of evolution and extinction, are interwoven to raise important questions for our times. Revisiting Antarctica through the archive becomes the urgent endeavour to imagine an inhabitable planetary future.
Author: Sampson Low
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author: Library Association
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 608
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 740
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.