Mapping Antarctica : A Five Hundred Year Record of Discovery /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Series: | Springer Praxis Books
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Concept: From Ptolemy to Cook
- Arctic and Antarctic regions are not Poles apart
- The Reality: Cook to the International Geographical Congress
- The Heroic Age: Heroes, Legends and Land
- Wings over the Continent: From Wilkins to War
- A Second World War and a New Order of Business
- Antarctica Comes of Age: Windows of the World (1960-2000)
- Post-2000: A new concept of mapping
- Tourism: A different explorer.