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    The Spectral Arctic

    A History of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration

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    Author(s)
    McCorristine, Shane
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29971
    Keywords
    arctic exploration; spectral arctic; dreams; ghosts; Clairvoyance; Franklin's lost expedition; Inuit; Jane Franklin
    DOI
    10.14324/111.9781787352452
    ISBN
    9781787352476, 9781787352469, 9781787352483, 9781787352490, 9781787352506, 9781787352452
    OCN
    1052106329
    Publisher
    UCL Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.uclpress.co.uk/
    Publication date and place
    2018
    Classification
    History
    Social and cultural history
    Oral history
    Maritime history
    Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
    Anthropology
    Social and cultural anthropology
    General and world history
    History of the Americas
    History of other geographical groupings and regions
    History and Archaeology
    c 1500 onwards to present day
    20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
    History: specific events and topics
    Pages
    326
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Arctic - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic; Arctic exploration - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_exploration; Clairvoyance - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clairvoyance; Franklin's lost expedition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin%27s_lost_expedition; Inuit - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit; Jane Franklin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Franklin
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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