North by degree : new perspectives on Arctic exploration /
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Philadelphia, PA :
American Philosophical Society,
[2013]
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| ISBN: | 9781606189238 1606189239 |
Table of Contents:
- "The men of prominence are 'among those present' for him" : how and why America's elites made Robert Peary a national icon / Lyle Dick
- Frederick Cook : a reappraisal / Michael F. Robinson
- "The advancement of exploration along scientific lines" : the American Geographical Society and the Arctic, 1851-1950 / Frederick E. Nelson
- Toward an early twentieth-century culture of northern Canadian exploration / Tina Adcock
- "The desolate shores of a frozen zone" : American whalers in Cumberland Sound, 1851-68 / Karen Routledge
- To be Black and American : Matthew Henson and his post-Pole lecture tour, 1909-10 / Emma Bonanomi
- Furs and satin : understanding Inughuit women's roles in culture contact through clothing / Genevieve M. LeMoine and Christyann M. Darwent
- "Congering" the past : the books of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881-84), before and after / David H. Stam
- Homemaking, snowbabies, and the search for the North Pole : Josephine Diebitsch Peary and the making of national history / Patricia Pierce Erikson
- Arctic imagery and decorative arts / Robert McCracken Peck
- The polar trek and the children's book : from Parry to Parry - 1825-1995 / Helen Reddick
- Showmen and explorer-showmen on the panoramic stage / Russell A. Potter
- "The balloonatic" : technological innovation or inflated showbusiness? : Commander Cheyne and the spectacle of polar flight / Huw Lewis-Jones
- "If it had been a common ship" : the first northward voyage of the Arctic steamship Roosevelt, 1905-06 / Anne Witty
- Riding shortwaves and icy seas : practicing science and deploying technology in the Arctic, 1913-24 / Susan A. Kaplan.