New Spaces of Exploration Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century

by Naylor, Simon; Ryan, James R.

• ISBN13: 9781848850170
• ISBN10: 1848850174
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

On the 2 March 4899 the British flag was hoisted on the Antarctic continent. The event - recorded in the first ever photograph taken on Antarctica - claimed possession on behalf of the British crown. A century later, 14,000 feet beneath the North Pole, a mini-submarine attached to a nuclear-powered ice breaker affixed the Russian flag to the Arctic seabed, and 213 miles above the Earth a Chinese astronaut waved the flag of the People's Republic.

Author Biography

Simon Naylor is Senior Lecturer in Historical Geography at the University of Exeter. He is Reviews Editor for the Journal of Historical Geography. James R. Ryan is Associate Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter. He is editor (with J. Schwartz) of Picturing Place (I.B.Tauris, 2003)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. VII
Notes on Contributors	p. VIII
Exploration and the twentieth century	p. 1
'Deeds not words'? Life writing and early twentieth-century British polar exploration	p. 23
Configuring the field: Photography in early twentieth-century Antarctic exploration	p. 52
Explorations in the Libyan Desert: William J. Harding King	p. 78
Fieldwork and the geographical career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of Australia	p. 105
Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US Military, 1945-58	p. 125
Assault on the unknown: Geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International Geophysical Year (1957-8)	p. 148
'Brinik': How America made and destroyed Britain's first satellite	p. 173
High empire: Rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space exploration, 1944-62	p. 196
Walking in your footsteps: 'Footstepsof the explorers' expeditions and the contest for Australian desert space	p. 222
Modern explorers	p. 241
Notes	p. 251
Select Bibliography	p. 293
Index	p. 305
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