Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams and Ghosts in Polar Exploration.

Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of A...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author:	McCorristine, Shane (Author)
Other title:	Spectral Arctic.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	UCL Press, 2018.
Subjects:	Northwest Passage. Arctic regions > Discovery and exploration. Shamanism > Arctic regions. Apparitions > Arctic regions. Arctic Regions. Arctic Ocean > Northwest Passage. Shamanism. Discoveries in geography. Apparitions.