New spaces of exploration : geographies of discovery in the twentieth century / edited by Simon Naylor and James R. Ryan.

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English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2010.
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x, 309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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    This title demonstrates how new technologies and changing geopolitical configurations have ensured that exploration has remained a key feature in our rapidly globalizing world. It shows the increasing diversity of modern exploration and reveals the continuing political, military, industrial and cultural motivations at play.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 contest for Australian desert space / Felix Driver.
    ISBN
    • 9781848850170
    • 1848850174
    • 9781848850163 ((hbk.))
    • 1848850166 ((hbk.))
    OCLC
    424559895
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