South Pole / / Elizabeth Leane
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| Autore: |
Leane Elizabeth
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| Titolo: |
South Pole / / Elizabeth Leane
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| Pubblicazione: | London, England : , : Reaktion Books, , 2016 |
| ©2016 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Disciplina: | 919.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Scientific expeditions - Antarctica |
| Human ecology - Antarctica | |
| Soggetto geografico: | South Pole Discovery and exploration |
| South Pole Social aspects | |
| Antarctica Environmental conditions | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Where is the South Pole? -- Maps and mythologies -- Polar imaginations -- Pole-hunting -- Settling in at 'Ninety South' -- Highest, coldest, driest ...? -- Looking up and looking down -- South Polar politics -- Pictures of nothingness -- Adventurers and extreme tourists. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As one of two points where the Earth's axis meets its surface, the South Pole should be a precisely defined place. But as Elizabeth Leane shows in this book, conceptually it is a place of paradoxes. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, yet it is a highly sought-after location, and reaching it on foot is one of the most extreme adventures an explorer can undertake. The Pole is, as Leane shows, a deeply imagined place, and a place of politics, where a series of national claims converge. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | South Pole |
| ISBN: | 1-78023-629-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828361703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Earth series (Reaktion Books (Firm))