LEADER 03366oam 22006134a 450 001 9910272351303321 005 20240201172557.0 010 $a9781787352452 010 $a1787352455 024 7 $a10.14324/111.9781787352452 035 $a(CKB)4100000004240073 035 $a(OAPEN)651056 035 $a(OCoLC)1156894743 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse96161 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89226 035 $a(ScCtBLL)1a49ee35-9e9b-454c-9302-31c97e342464 035 $a(OCoLC)1052106329 035 $a(oapen)doab89226 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004240073 100 $a20180521d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aSpectral Arctic$eA History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration /$fShane McCorristine 210 $cUniversity College London$d2018 210 1$aLondon :$cUCL Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018. 215 $a1 online resource (326) 311 08$a9781787352469 311 08$a1787352463 330 8 $aThe Arctic was long imagined as an otherworldly place, thousands of miles from the warmth and familiarity of home, and nineteenth-century Britons were fascinated by the notion of the heroic explorer voyaging through harsh terrain in pursuit of the Northwest Passage. But the mapping of this vast uncharted territory was only part of the fascination with the Arctic; Explorers and those who eagerly followed their perilous progress were also fascinated by the unknown, by the dreams and ghosts that might materialize there. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg, argues Shane McCorristine, and there are a great many more mysterious stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, The Spectral Arctic 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 traveled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin's lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the Arctic in the past. This revisionist historical account also allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the long-lost Franklin Expedition and the recent rediscovery of the two ships. 606 $aShamanism$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01115159 606 $aDiscoveries in geography$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00894950 606 $aApparitions$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00811524 606 $aShamanism$zArctic regions 606 $aApparitions$zArctic regions 607 $aArctic regions$2fast 607 $aArctic Ocean$zNorthwest Passage$2fast 607 $aNorthwest Passage 607 $aArctic regions$xDiscovery and exploration 615 0$aShamanism. 615 0$aDiscoveries in geography. 615 0$aApparitions. 615 0$aShamanism 615 0$aApparitions 700 $aMcCorristine$b Shane$f1983-$0983877 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910272351303321 996 $aSpectral Arctic$92246287 997 $aUNINA