Huw Lewis-Jones, Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017)
Tales of exploration are necessarily shrouded in doubt. Whilst exploration trades in discovery, its truth claims are often ambiguous and reliant on a handful of first-hand accounts. Even when achievement seems clear-cut, its value is often questioned, even before we get to the complex entanglements...
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The University of Akureyri
2022-03-01
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| Online Access: | https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-17-no-1-2022/book-review-double-blind-peer-review/huw-lewis-jones-imagining-the-arctic-heroism-spectacle-and-polar-exploration-london-i-b-tauris-2017/ |