| Descrip. |
x, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Descript |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Tauris historical geography series ; 2 |
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Tauris historical geography series ; 2.
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-304) and index. |
| Contents |
Exploration and the twentieth century / James R. Ryan and Simon Naylor -- 'Deeds not words'? : life writing and early twentieth-century British polar exploration / Elizabeth Baigent -- Configuring the field : photography in early twentieth-century Antarctic exploration / Kathryn Yusoff -- Explorations in the Libyan desert : William J. Harding King / Nicola J. Thomas and Jude Hill -- Fieldwork and the geographical career : T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia / Simon Naylor -- Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US military, 1945-58 / Fae L. Korsmo -- Assault on the unknown : geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International Geophysical Year (1957-8) / Klaus Dodds -- 'Britnik' : how America made and destroyed Britain's first satellite / Matthew Godwin -- High empire : rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space exploration, 1944-62 / Fraser MacDonald -- Walking in your footsteps : 'footsteps of the explorers' expeditions and the context for Australian desert space / Christy Collis -- Modern explorers / Felix Driver. |
| Subject |
Discoveries in geography -- History -- 20th century.
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| Add Author |
Naylor, Simon.
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Ryan, James R.
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| ISBN |
9781848850170 |
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1848850174 |
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9781848850163 |
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1848850166 |
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