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MARC recordHigh places: cultural geographies of mountains and ice / Denis Cosgrove, Veronica della Dora, eds.
| Title: | High places: cultural geographies of mountains and ice / Denis Cosgrove, Veronica della Dora, eds. |
| Author(s): | Cosgrove, Denis, della Dora, Veronica, Bravo, Michael T. Frazar, Heather. Powell, Richard C. Fox, William L. Wylie, John. Yusoff, Kathryn. |
| Date: | 2008. |
| Publisher: | London: I.B. Tauris |
| Abstract: | Explores cultural geographies of polar and mountainous regions, in particular impact on human imagination, and awe and reverence they attract as places of physical challenge, intense experience, danger and death. Also notes that such regions are important locations for scientific research, and barometers of environmental vulnerability. |
| Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography. 113/119 -- Attitudes to nature. 5(091) -- History of science. 551.32 -- Glaciology. 551.43 -- Reconstruction of ancient relief. 551.583 -- Climatic changes. 712.01 -- Scenery, aesthetic aspects. 91(091) -- Exploration, history. 93 -- History. Z -- Miscellaneous. (*3) -- Arctic regions. (*7) -- Antarctic regions. |
| Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*2)[2010] |
| ISBN: | 9781845116170 |
| SPRI record no.: | 190397 |
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