The Spectral Arctic: A History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration by Shane McCorristine

The Spectral Arctic: A History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration

Shane McCorristine

326 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced

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The Arctic was long imagined as an otherworldly place, thousands of miles from the warmth and familiarity of home, and nineteenth-century Britons were fascinated by the notion of the heroic explorer voyaging through harsh terrain in pursuit of the...

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