This paper offers a new perspective on historical understandings of the relationship between alcohol, climate and the body, by studying the way that British explorers of tropical Africa …
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This article makes the case for applying recent developments in the history of emotions, and in particular the concept of “emotional arena”, to the study of past polar expeditions. It …
The late nineteenth and early twentieth century saw dramatic new developments in climatic medicine, particularly the institutionalisation of thinking about tropical hygiene. There were …
The Right Stuff: Material Culture, Comfort, and the Making of Explorers, 1820-1940 Sarah Mendoza Pickman 2022 This is a Page 1 Abstract The Right Stuff: Material Culture, Comfort …
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Nearly half of Earth's circumference separates Paris from its Antarctic territory, Terre Adélie, a sliver of the white continent as far removed from France's capital as geography …
This thesis offers a new perspective on Victorian and Edwardian British exploration by focusing on the bodies of explorers and those on whom they depended. It answers two key …
Antarctica is the most remote and desolate continent on earth and those who find themselves there are among the most isolated. Communication with the outside world is …