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The News at the Ends of the Earth - The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (Paperback)
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The News at the Ends of the Earth - The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (Paperback)
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From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest
Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar
expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are
as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt,
fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the
Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection
of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship
newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills,
polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time,
space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather
patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing
provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them
survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The
extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with
climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends,
offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme
environment of the present.
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