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oapen-20.500.12657-249022021-11-10T07:53:44Z The News at the Ends of the Earth Blum, Hester Arctic and Antarctica climate change print culture environmental humanities anthropocene ecomedia polar bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RN The environment 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. 2019-08-12 17:45:31 2020-04-01T10:13:31Z 2020-04-01T10:13:31Z 2019 book 1005199 OCN: 1135845295 9781478003229 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24902 eng application/pdf n/a 9781478004486.pdf https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-news-at-the-ends-of-the-earth Duke University Press 10.1353/book.65200 10.1353/book.65200 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b 9781478003229 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 328 Durham, NC 2019-07-18 09:40:09, Funder name: The Pennsylvania State University/Funding project name: Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem/Acronym: TOME open access
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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.
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