Antarctica: Exploration, Perception and Metaphor

Antarctica: Exploration, Perception and Metaphor
ISBN-10
1134891210
ISBN-13
9781134891214
Series
Antarctica
Category
Science
Pages
154
Language
English
Published
2002-03-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Paul Simpson-Housley

Description

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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