A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects av Anne Strathie

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<p>A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects covers just over 150 years of polar exploration during which a mysterious southern continent and an elusive northern sea-route became less incognita and increasingly charted and understood.</p><p>The objects of the title include instruments used by explorers and scientists, their means of transport and representations of previously unrecorded sights and creatures. Others evidence how explorers financed expeditions, survived during them or shed light on the lives of those who awaited their return in an era before the modern communications now taken for granted. While individual objects are of their own time, they form part of a continuum of polar exploration; they also evidence networks and collaborations which bind polar explorers and scientists to each other, to other mariners and those living in or near polar regions.</p><p>The fifty objects include: ¿ Mrs Elizabeth Cook¿s ditty-box made of wood from HMS Resolution. ¿ John Ross¿s long-p