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100 | _aNaylor, Simon (Ed.) | ||
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_aNew Spaces of Exploration _b: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century |
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_bBloomsbury Publishing _c2022 _aNew Delhi |
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300 | _ax, 309p. | ||
504 | _aIncludes Notes, Bibliography and Index | ||
505 | _a1. 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 Notes Bibliography Index | ||
520 | _aThis 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 | ||
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_aDiscoveries in geography History 20th century _vExpedition |
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650 | _aHistory | ||
690 | _aGeneral | ||
700 | _aRyan, James .R (Ed.) | ||
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