Hester Blum

Broschiertes Buch

The News at the Ends of the Earth

The Print Culture of Polar Exploration

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Hester Blum is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, author of The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives, and editor of Turns of Event: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies in Motion and Horrors of Slavery: Or, The American Tars in Tripoli.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781478003878
• ISBN-10: 1478003871
• Artikelnr.: 52820183