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North by degree : new perspectives on Arctic exploration / Susan A. Kaplan and Robert McCracken Peck, editors

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Author:
Peck, Robert McCracken 1952-  Search this
Kaplan, Susan A. 1951-  Search this
Subject:
Peary, Robert E (Robert Edwin) 1856-1920 Travel  Search this
Peary, Robert E (Robert Edwin) 1856-1920 Anniversaries  Search this
Physical description:
xviii, 469 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Type:
Books
Conference papers and proceedings
Place:
Arctic regions
Date:
2013
Contents:
"The men of prominence are 'among those present' for him" : how and why America's elites made Robert Peary a national icon / Lyle Dick -- Frederick Cook : a reappraisal / Michael F. Robinson -- "The advancement of exploration along scientific lines" : the American Geographical Society and the Arctic, 1851-1950 / Frederick E. Nelson -- Toward an early twentieth-century culture of northern Canadian exploration / Tina Adcock -- "The desolate shores of a frozen zone" : American whalers in Cumberland Sound, 1851-68 / Karen Routledge -- To be Black and American : Matthew Henson and his post-Pole lecture tour, 1909-10 / Emma Bonanomi -- Furs and satin : understanding Inughuit women's roles in culture contact through clothing / Genevieve M. LeMoine and Christyann M. Darwent -- "Congering" the past : the books of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-84), before and after / David H. Stam -- Homemaking, snowbabies, and the search for the North Pole : Josephine Diebitsch Peary and the making of national history / Patricia Pierce Erikson -- Arctic imagery and decorative arts / Robert McCracken Peck -- The polar trek and the children's book : from Parry to Parry - 1825-1995 / Helen Reddick -- Showmen and explorer-showmen on the panoramic stage / Russell A. Potter -- "The balloonatic" : technological innovation or inflated showbusiness? : Commander Cheyne and the spectacle of polar flight / Huw Lewis-Jones -- "If it had been a common ship" : the first northward voyage of the Arctic steamship Roosevelt, 1905-06 / Anne Witty -- Riding shortwaves and icy seas : practicing science and deploying technology in the Arctic, 1913-24 / Susan A. Kaplan
Topic:
Polar regions--Discovery and exploration  Search this
Discovery and exploration  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1082357