Heroes and Nomads in Norwegian Polar Explorer Literature by Jørgen Alnæs

“…This book too is importatant in the Norwegian polar explorer discourse.…”
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In Memoriam Professor Ryszard Ligowski (1946–2017) a scientist and a polar explorer by Siciński Jacek

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The Project “Arctic Oral Memory” as an Audiovisual Resource on the History of the Arctic Exploration and Exploitation by Pavel A. Filin

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John V.H. Dippel, To the Ends of the Earth: The Truth behind the Glory of Polar Exploration (New York: Prometheus Books, 2018) by Maria Pia Paganelli

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Review of Hester Blum, The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (2019)

“…Review of Hester Blum, The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (2019)…”
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Sexual Polarities: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polar Exploration as a Search for Origins Beyond ‘woman’ by Polly Gould

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Sheila Bransfield, The Man Who Discovered Antarctica: Edward Bransfield Explained. The first man to find and chart the Antarctic mainland (Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2019) by Maria Pia Paganelli

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Huw Lewis-Jones, Imagining the Arctic: Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration (London: I.B. Tauris, 2017) by Christian Drury

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Reframing the polar exploration narrative: Inuit resilience and ecological transformations in the early 20th century North American Arctic by Shini, N. Brentha

“…The late polar exploration period—spanning from the 1890s to the 1930s—was categorised as European presence in indigenous lands, Inuit cultural decline, and ecological changes in the North American Arctic. …”
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LONG TERM SEED PRESERVATION IN PERMAFROST OF ARCTIC; THE HISTORY OF EXPERIMENT AND NEW CHALENGES by V. F. Pivovarov, S. E. Ulanin, S. L. Beletskiy, F. B. Musaev, M. M. Tareeva

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No second-in-command: human fatigue and the crash of the airship Italia revisited by Gregg A. Bendrick, Sergio Alessandrini

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The Queen of the Arctic: Louise Arner Boyd by Elisabeth Isaksson, Anka Ryall

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Modeling of observation instruments and path planning under time-variant illumination areas for water exploration in lunar polar region by Yuki MORI, Kazumune HASHIMOTO, Hiroka INOUE

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EXPERIMENT ON LONG-STORAGE OF FOOD PRODUCTS FOODSTUFFS IN CODITION OF PERMAFROST CONTINUED, ARCTIC, 2016 by S. E. Ulanin, S. L. Beletskiy

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Dreams of Arctic flights by Alexandre Simon-Ekeland

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Rossijsko-germanskoe nauchnoe i obrazovatel'noe sotrudnichestvo v Arktike [Russian-German research and academic cooperation in the Arctic] by Dmitriyev Vasily, Kaledin Nikolai, Kassens Heidemarie, Kakhro Nadezhda, Troyan Vladimir, Fyodorova Irina

Subjects: “…experience of academic cooperation of Saint Petersburg State University in the field of polar exploration…”
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The Landscapes of Eco-NoirReimagining Norwegian eco-exceptionalism in Occupied by Mrozewicz Anna Estera

“…I show how Norway's green (self-)image is expressed through what I call “white ecology” – an aesthetics of whiteness encoded in neoromantic mountainous winter landscapes widely associated with the North, but also in the figure of the Norwegian white male polar explorer. I argue in this article that Occupied challenges this white-ecological masculine discourse through “dark ecology” (Morton, 2007), embodied by Russia and expressed by the avoidance of spectacular landscape aesthetics as well as by the strategy of “enmeshment”, facilitated by the medium of televisual long-form storytelling and the eco-noir aesthetics.…”
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Nostalgisk erindring og polar karrierehistorie. Fridtjof Nansen: <i>Blant sel og bjørn: min første ishavs-ferd</i> (1924) by Silje Solheim Karlsen

“…On the other hand, the convincing andthorough scientific material in the book positions Nansen as an authority both what regards science, but perhaps just as important: as a successful polar explorer and hero.…”
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Polariser l'écart : la mise en scène du décalage dans Fram de Tony Harrison by Catherine Lanone

“…Best known as a poet, Tony Harrison is also a translator and playwright; his 2008 play Fram was badly received by critics, perhaps because it plays on key structural discrepancy, embedding as it does the story of Nansen, the polar explorer (with the eponymous boat he designed, Fram) within the frame of a play written by the ghost of the late academic Gilbert Murray. …”
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Heterotopisk Svalbard-krim by Lisbeth Pettersen Wærp

“…How is the Arctic represented in modern crime fiction written by a female glaciologist, meterologist and polar explorer? Monica Kristensen is the author of a new, critically acclaimed, series of crime novels set in Svalbard. …”
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