South by Northwest : the magnetic crusade and the contest for Antarctica / Granville Allen Mawer
- Bib ID:
- 3806495
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mawer, G. A. (G. Allen), 1943-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2006
- xii, 319 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781841585017
- 1841585017
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Introduction 1
- A Great and Dark Power 3
- PART ONE
- The Antarctic Crusaders 1837-45
- Le Roi S'Amuse 23
- America Ventures Abroad 32
- Science Conspires 44
- Terre Adelie 57
- An Antarctic Continent? 67
- Marking the Territory 81
- Victoria's Land 91
- The Economy of Life 109
- Paper Warfare 124
- Contradictions 139
- " ' i. The Sphinx in the Ice 153
- PART TWO
- The Second Crusade 1898-1914
- Poles Apart 163
- Thereabouts 175
- Jemima's Secret 187
- Frozen Frontiers 205
- 'Hazy, Indistinct and Movable' 223
- Pax Antarctica 238
- Vainglory 252
- Out of Nowhere 260
- Facsimile of South Polar Times Article 267.
- Notes:
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- First published in 2006 by Wakefield Press, Australia.
- Includes bibliographical references (P. 276-286) and index.
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