TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cosgrove,Denis E.
AU  - Della Dora,Veronica
TI  - High places: cultural geographies of mountains, ice and science 
T2  - International library of human geography
SN  - 9781845116163
AV  - GF57 .H54 2009
U1  - 304.2309143 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Cultural geography
KW  - Altitude, Influence of
KW  - Mountains
KW  - fast
KW  - Anthropogeografie
KW  - gnd
KW  - Hochland
KW  - montagne
KW  - études diverses
KW  - rero
KW  - zone polaire
KW  - swd
KW  - Anthropogeographie
KW  - Polar regions
KW  - Polargebiete
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -