Author: Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Dream Land and Ghost Land
Author: Edwin Paxton Hood
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dreams
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Spectral Arctic
Author: Shane McCorristine
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977360
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977360
Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Public Library of New South Wales. Reference Dept
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library
Author: Public Library of New South Wales
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Catalogue of books added to the library of Congress
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368120484
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Cromwell
Common sense: arguments in anecdotes
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1364
Book Description