The news at the ends of the earth : the print culture of polar exploration /

Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive...

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Author / Contributor: Blum, Hester (Author)
Imprint: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
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Summary:Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by nineteenth- and early twentieth-century polar explorers, showing how ship newspapers and other writing shows how explores wrestled with questions of time, space, and community while providing them with habits to survive the extreme polar climate.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxv, 298 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781478004486
1478004487
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2019).
Action Note:digitized