Includes Notes, Bibliography and Index

1. Exploration and the Twentieth Century James R Ryan and Simon Naylor
2. 'Deeds not Words'? Life writing and early twentieth-century British polar exploration Elizabeth Baigent
3. Configuring the Field: photography in early twentieth century Antarctic exploration Kathryn Yusoff
4. Explorations in the Libyan Desert: William J. Harding King Nicola J. Thomas and Jude Hill
5. Fieldwork and the Geographical Career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia Simon Naylor
6. Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US military Fae L Korsmo
7. Assault on the unknown: Geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International Geophysical Year Klaus Dodds
8. 'Britnik': How America made and destroyed Britain's first satellite Matthew Godwin
9. High Empire: rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space exploration Fraser MacDonald
10. Walking in your footsteps: 'footsteps of the explorers' expeditions and the contest for Australian desert space Christy Collis
11. Afterword Felix Driver
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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