The Spectral Arctic : A History of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration

Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of A...

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Main Author: McCorristine, Shane (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: UCL Press 2018
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