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041 _aeng
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_bNAY
100 _aNaylor, Simon (Ed.)
245 _aNew Spaces of Exploration
_b: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century
260 _bBloomsbury Publishing
_c2022
_aNew Delhi
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
650 _aDiscoveries in geography History 20th century
_vExpedition
650 _aHistory
690 _aGeneral
700 _aRyan, James .R (Ed.)
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