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Record #210124:
North by degree: new perspectives on Arctic exploration / Susan A. Kaplan, Robert McCracken Peck, eds.
Title: | North by degree: new perspectives on Arctic exploration / Susan A. Kaplan, Robert McCracken Peck, eds. |
Author(s): | Kaplan, Susan A., Peck, Robert McCracken, Dick, Lyle. Robinson, Michael F. Nelson, Frederick E. Adcock, Tina. Routledge, Karen. Bonanomi, Emma. LeMoine, Genevieve M. Stam, David H. Erikson, Patricia Pierce. Peck, Robert McCracken. Reddick, Helen. Potter, Russell A. Lewis-Jones, Huw. Witty, Anne. Kaplan, Susan A. |
Date: | 2013. |
Publisher: | Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society |
Abstract: | Comprises 15 essays discussing late 19th and early 20th century Arctic exploration, and focusing on social, technological and environmental settings in which expeditions were conceived, executed, described, and understood by public. |
Keywords: | 39 -- Ethnography. 5(091) -- History of science. 91(091) -- Exploration, history. IPY07-08E -- IPY 2007-08 Education, outreach and communication publications. 061.3 -- Conferences: 2008 North by Degree - an International Conference on Arctic Exploration. 93"18" -- Nineteenth century. 93"190" -- 1900-1909. 93"191" -- 1910-1919. 93"192" -- 1920-1929. W -- Expeditions and exploration. (*3) -- Arctic regions. |
Location(s): | SCO: SPRI-SHF: (*3) : 91(091)[2013] |
ISBN: | 9781606189238 |
SPRI record no.: | 210124 |
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