High places : cultural geographies of mountains, ice and science / edited by Denis Cosgrove and Veronica della Dora.
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TextSeries: International library of human geography: 15.Publisher: London : I.B. Tauris, 2009Description: xiv, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781845116163; 184511616X; 1845116178; 9781845116170Subject(s): Cultural geography | Altitude, Influence of | Mountains | Polar regions | Cultural geography | Altitude, Influence of | Mountains | Polar regions | Altitude, Influence of | Cultural geography | Mountains | Polar regions | Anthropogeografie | Hochland | Polargebiete | montagne -- études diverses | zone polaire -- études diverses | Hochland | Anthropogeographie | Polargebiete | Anthropogeographie | Aufsatzsammlung | Hochland | PolargebieteGenre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung. | Aufsatzsammlung.Additional physical formats: Online version:: High places.DDC classification: 304.2309143 LOC classification: GF57 | .H54 2009Other classification: RB 10307 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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