TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blum, Hester
AB  - From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent. In The News at the Ends of the Earth Hester Blum examines the rich, offbeat collection of printed ephemera created by polar explorers. Ranging from ship newspapers and messages left in bottles to menus and playbills, polar writing reveals the seamen wrestling with questions of time, space, community, and the environment. Whether chronicling weather patterns or satirically reporting on penguin mischief, this writing provided expedition members with a set of practices to help them survive the perpetual darkness and harshness of polar winters. The extreme climates these explorers experienced is continuous with climate change today. Polar exploration writing, Blum contends, offers strategies for confronting and reckoning with the extreme environment of the present.
DO  - 10.1353/book.65200
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1005199
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135845295
KW  - Arctic and Antarctica
KW  - climate change
KW  - print culture
KW  - environmental humanities
KW  - anthropocene
KW  - ecomedia
KW  - polar
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/080f3cf8-aec7-4ae9-a9ce-04f9073926cc/9781478004486.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24902
PB  - Duke University Press
PP  - Durham, NC
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9781478003229
TI  - The News at the Ends of the Earthnull
ER  - 
