Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
“A” Catalogue of Books
Author: Justin WinsorA Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Lower Hall of the Central Department
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Spectral Arctic
Author: Shane McCorristinePublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352455
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.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 2134
Book Description
The Love-life of Dr. Kane
Author: Elisha Kent KanePublisher: New York : Carleton
ISBN:
Category : Arctic regions
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Dr. Elisha Kent Kane was America's first Arctic explorer. He served as ship's surgeon with the First Grinnell Expedition and as leader of the second Grinnell Expedition in search of John Franklin. After his death, spiritualist Margaret Fox claimed that she was Kane's common-law wife, but his family refused to grant her a widow's annuity. Five years later she filed a lawsuit, and both parties reached an agreement: an annuity for Fox in exchange for Kane's correspondence with her. Charging that the Kanes had not kept their word, she published this volume anonymously.
DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. Book Sale Catalogs
Author: DeWolfe, Fiske & Co. (Boston, Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher: Lucia Marquand
ISBN: 9781555953614
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Historical Materials in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidential libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
History of the Genesee Country (Western New York)
Author: Lockwood Richard DotyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genesee region, New York
Languages : en
Pages : 651
Book Description
Great Men and Famous Women
Author: Charles Francis HornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description