High places : cultural geographies of mountains, ice and science /
edited by Denis Cosgrove and Veronica della Dora.
- London : I.B. Tauris, 2009.
- xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- International library of human geography ; 15 .
- International library of human geography ; 15. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-260) and index.
Walking in circles : cognition and science in high places / William L. Fox -- The ends of the Earth : narrating Scott, Amundsen and Antarctica / John Wylie -- Climates of sight : mistaken visibilities, mirages and 'seeing beyond' in Antarctica / Kathryn Yusoff -- Core matters : Greenland, Denver and the GISP2 ice core / Heather Frazar -- Mountains : between pure reason and embodied experience : Philippe Buache and Alexander von Humboldt / Bernard Debarbieux -- Domesticating high places : Mount Athos : botanical 'garden of the Virgin' / Veronica della Dora -- Astronomers at altitude : mountain geography and the cultivation of scientific legitimacy / K. Maria D. Lane -- Stewards of the mountains : the poetics and politics of local knowledge in the Valaisan Alps / Gilles Rudaz -- Sea ice mapping : ontology, mechanics and human rights at the ice floe edge / Michael T. Bravo -- Canada Day in Resolute : performance, ritual, and the nation in an Inuit community / Richard C. Powell -- Paektudaegan : science and colonialism, memory and mapping in Korean high places / Jong-Heon Jin -- Afterword : 'the unhandselled globe' / J. Nicholas Entrikin.
High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are exciting and special environments. 13 leading international geographers explore different aspects of these environments - disorientation, exploration, native knowledge, polar research.
9781845116163 184511616X 1845116178 9781845116170
GBA891460 bnb GBA891460 dnb
014674747 Uk
Cultural geography.
Altitude, Influence of.
Mountains.
Cultural geography.
Altitude, Influence of.
Mountains.
Altitude, Influence of.
Cultural geography.
Mountains.
Anthropogeografie.
Hochland.
montagne--études diverses.
zone polaire--études diverses.
Hochland.
Anthropogeographie.
Polar regions.
Polar regions.
Polar regions.
Polargebiete.
Polargebiete.
Anthropogeographie Aufsatzsammlung Hochland Polargebiete
Aufsatzsammlung.
Aufsatzsammlung.
GF57 / .H54 2009
304.2309143
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-260) and index.
Walking in circles : cognition and science in high places / William L. Fox -- The ends of the Earth : narrating Scott, Amundsen and Antarctica / John Wylie -- Climates of sight : mistaken visibilities, mirages and 'seeing beyond' in Antarctica / Kathryn Yusoff -- Core matters : Greenland, Denver and the GISP2 ice core / Heather Frazar -- Mountains : between pure reason and embodied experience : Philippe Buache and Alexander von Humboldt / Bernard Debarbieux -- Domesticating high places : Mount Athos : botanical 'garden of the Virgin' / Veronica della Dora -- Astronomers at altitude : mountain geography and the cultivation of scientific legitimacy / K. Maria D. Lane -- Stewards of the mountains : the poetics and politics of local knowledge in the Valaisan Alps / Gilles Rudaz -- Sea ice mapping : ontology, mechanics and human rights at the ice floe edge / Michael T. Bravo -- Canada Day in Resolute : performance, ritual, and the nation in an Inuit community / Richard C. Powell -- Paektudaegan : science and colonialism, memory and mapping in Korean high places / Jong-Heon Jin -- Afterword : 'the unhandselled globe' / J. Nicholas Entrikin.
High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are exciting and special environments. 13 leading international geographers explore different aspects of these environments - disorientation, exploration, native knowledge, polar research.
9781845116163 184511616X 1845116178 9781845116170
GBA891460 bnb GBA891460 dnb
014674747 Uk
Cultural geography.
Altitude, Influence of.
Mountains.
Cultural geography.
Altitude, Influence of.
Mountains.
Altitude, Influence of.
Cultural geography.
Mountains.
Anthropogeografie.
Hochland.
montagne--études diverses.
zone polaire--études diverses.
Hochland.
Anthropogeographie.
Polar regions.
Polar regions.
Polar regions.
Polargebiete.
Polargebiete.
Anthropogeographie Aufsatzsammlung Hochland Polargebiete
Aufsatzsammlung.
Aufsatzsammlung.
GF57 / .H54 2009
304.2309143