The Spectral Arctic: A History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration by Shane McCorristineEnglish | PDF | 2018 | 278 Pages | ISBN : 1787352463 | 22.51 MB
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 Northwest Passage. But the mapping of this vast uncharted territory was only part of the fascination with the Arctic; Explorers and those who eagerly followed their perilous progress were also fascinated by the unknown, by the dreams and ghosts that might materialize there.