New Spaces of Exploration: Geographies of Discovery in the Twentieth Century (Tauris Historical Geographical Series Book 2) by Simon Naylor, James R. Ryan
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Overview: On the 2 March 1899 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.
For many the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in what Joseph Conrad called ‘Geography Triumphant’, an era where the world map had few if any blank spaces left to discover and the figure of the lone explorer motivated by a noble quest for knowledge and adventure was banished for ever. The age of exploration was supposedly dead. New Spaces of Exploration challenges this assumption. Focussing specifically on exploration in the twentieth century the authors demonstrate how new technologies and changing geopolitical configurations have ensured that exploration has remained a key feature of our rapidly globalizing world.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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