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Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century (2021)

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Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY brought together researchers from multiple countries with the aim of undertaking systematic and coordinated experiments and observations in the Arctic and Antarctic. Harsh conditions, intense isolation, and acute danger inevitably impacted the making and communicating of scientific knowledge. At the same time, changes in ideas about what it meant to be an authoritative observer of natural phenomena were linked to tensions in imperial ambitions, national identities, and international collaborations of the IPY. Through a focused study of travel narratives in the British, Danish, Canadian, and American contexts, Nanna Katrine Lüders Kaalund uncovers not only the transnational nature of Arctic exploration, but also how the publication and reception of literature about it shaped an extreme environment, its explorers, and their scientific practices. She reveals how, far beyond the metropole—in the vast area we understand today as the North American and Greenlandic Arctic—explorations and the narratives that followed ultimately influenced the production of field science in the nineteenth century.

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Review Daniella McCahey (2023) Review of "Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 123-124). unapi

Review Vanessa Heggie (2022) Review of "Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 193-194). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Guly, Henry
Marthe Fjellestad
Nencioni, Giuseppe
Yajun Mo
John Woitkowitz
Dietz, Feike
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Scientific expeditions
Travel literature
Geography
Science and culture
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
Arctic regions
United States
Great Britain
Greenland
Russia
Canada
Institutions
International Polar Year (1882-1883)
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