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Proposals For The First Australian Antarctic Expedition
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Author :Lynette Cole Publisher :Department of Geography & Environmental Science Monash University ISBN 13 :9780909685430 Total Pages :74 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (854 download)
Book Synopsis Proposals for the First Australian Antarctic Expedition by : Lynette Cole
Download or read book Proposals for the First Australian Antarctic Expedition written by Lynette Cole and published by Department of Geography & Environmental Science Monash University. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lecture on the Proposed Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 by : Douglas Mawson
Download or read book Lecture on the Proposed Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911 written by Douglas Mawson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Home of the Blizzard by : Douglas Mawson
Download or read book The Home of the Blizzard written by Douglas Mawson and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antarctic.
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Download or read book Antarctica written by David Day and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-03 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first sailing ships spied the Antarctic coastline in 1820, the frozen continent has captured the world's imagination. David Day's brilliant biography of Antarctica describes in fascinating detail every aspect of this vast land's history--two centuries of exploration, scientific investigation, and contentious geopolitics. Drawing from archives from around the world, Day provides a sweeping, large-scale history of Antarctica. Focusing on the dynamic personalities drawn to this unconquered land, the book offers an engaging collective biography of explorers and scientists battling the elements in the most hostile place on earth. We see intrepid sea captains picking their way past icebergs and pushing to the edge of the shifting pack ice, sanguinary sealers and whalers drawn south to exploit "the Penguin El Dorado," famed nineteenth-century explorers like Scott and Amundson in their highly publicized race to the South Pole, and aviators like Clarence Ellsworth and Richard Byrd, flying over great stretches of undiscovered land. Yet Antarctica is also the story of nations seeking to incorporate the Antarctic into their national narratives and to claim its frozen wastes as their own. As Day shows, in a place as remote as Antarctica, claiming land was not just about seeing a place for the first time, or raising a flag over it; it was about mapping and naming and, more generally, knowing its geographic and natural features. And ultimately, after a little-known decision by FDR to colonize Antarctica, claiming territory meant establishing full-time bases on the White Continent. The end of the Second World War would see one last scramble for polar territory, but the onset of the International Geophysical Year in 1957 would launch a cooperative effort to establish scientific bases across the continent. And with the Antarctic Treaty, science was in the ascendant, and cooperation rather than competition was the new watchword on the ice. Tracing history from the first sighting of land up to the present day, Antarctica is a fascinating exploration of this deeply alluring land and man's struggle to claim it.
Book Synopsis The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by : Douglas Mawson
Download or read book The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 written by Douglas Mawson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mawson turned down an invitation to join Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1910; Australian geologist Griffith Taylor went instead. Dawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including visiting the South Magnetic Pole.
Download or read book Mawson's Huts written by David Jensen and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slicing the Silence by : Tom Griffiths
Download or read book Slicing the Silence written by Tom Griffiths and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author reflects on his experiences exploring Antarctica, the last true wilderness.
Book Synopsis The Ice and the Inland by : Brigid Hains
Download or read book The Ice and the Inland written by Brigid Hains and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant, original and very well written book, luminous with meaning, full of superb cameos and suggestive arguments ... the central figures are both charismatic, articulate and iconic: they are central to any estimation of twentieth-century Australian cultural and environmental history.-Dr Tom Griffiths, Australian National University This is a path-breaking work ... the environmental aspect of the work is powerful, and there are some wonderful ideas about what is 'civilised' and what is 'wilderness'. Brigid Hains has reinvigorated the tradition of 'frontier studies'. -Dr Jane Carruthers, University of South Africa The frontier mythology of the early twentieth century laid the groundwork for the wilderness cult of contemporary Australian life. It became etched in the Australian imagination through the image of folk heroes such as Douglas Mawson and John Flynn, promising national renewal through virile heroism and an encounter with 'wild' nature. Most frontier histories in Australia have focused on race relations; this is among the first to focus on the frontier as an ecological phenomenon. It draws on rich primary sources, many of which have never been published, including Antarctic diaries, and the letters and journalism of John Flynn. In this superb account Brigid Hains offers: -a new interpretation of two Australian folk heroes and their iconic status in Australian culture -a fresh approach to frontier history that focuses on the landscape rather than on racial conflict, and -an explanation of the origins of wilderness conservation in Australia. Mawson's Antarctic exploration and Flynn's Australian Inland Mission both drew on imperial and trans-Pacific influences, such as imperial adventure literature, the cult of polar exploration, the rural life movement, population theory and eugenics. The Ice and the Inland compares these two Australian folk heroes and analyses the reasons for their popularity. It raises a number of topical issues, including the role of Australia in the international management of Antarctica; Flynn's treatment of Aboriginal people; the reasons for conservation of Australia's wild places, from the arid Centre to the frozen wastes of Antarctica; and relationships between the country and the bush, and between the metropolis and the frontier.
Book Synopsis The Home of the Blizzard by : Sir Douglas Mawson
Download or read book The Home of the Blizzard written by Sir Douglas Mawson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Antarctica in Fiction by : Elizabeth Leane
Download or read book Antarctica in Fiction written by Elizabeth Leane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.
Download or read book Trial by Ice written by John King Davis and published by Erskine Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes] by : William James Mills
Download or read book Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes] written by William James Mills and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-12-11 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.
Book Synopsis Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica by : Klaus Dodds
Download or read book Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica written by Klaus Dodds and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antarctic and Southern Ocean are hotspots for contemporary endeavours to oversee 'the last frontier' of the Earth. The Handbook on the Politics of Antarctica offers a wide-ranging and comprehensive overview of the governance, geopolitics, international law, cultural studies and history of the region. Four thematic sections take readers from the earliest human encounters to contemporary resource exploitation and climate change. Written by leading experts, the Handbook brings together the very best interdisciplinary social science and humanities scholarship on the Antarctic and Southern Ocean.
Book Synopsis The Home of the Blizzard by : Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir
Download or read book The Home of the Blizzard written by Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Ecology and Empire by : Tom Griffiths
Download or read book Ecology and Empire written by Tom Griffiths and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the relationship between the expansion of empire and the environmental experience of the extra-European world.
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