High places : cultural geographies of mountains, ice and science /: cultural geographies of mountains, ice and science. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Denis Cosgrove and Veronica della Dora.
• Other Names: Cosgrove, Denis E; Della Dora, Veronica
• Contents: Walking in circles : cognition and science in high places / William L. Fox -- The ends of the Earth : narrating Scott, Amundsen and Antarctica / John Wylie -- Climates of sight : mistaken visibilities, mirages and 'seeing beyond' in Antarctica / Kathryn Yusoff -- Core matters : Greenland, Denver and the GISP2 ice core / Heather Frazar -- Mountains : between pure reason and embodied experience : Philippe Buache and Alexander von Humboldt / Bernard Debarbieux -- Domesticating high places : Mount Athos : botanical 'garden of the Virgin' / Veronica della Dora -- Astronomers at altitude : mountain geography and the cultivation of scientific legitimacy / K. Maria D. Lane -- Stewards of the mountains : the poetics and politics of local knowledge in the Valaisan Alps / Gilles Rudaz -- Sea ice mapping : ontology, mechanics and human rights at the ice floe edge / Michael T. Bravo -- Canada Day in Resolute : performance, ritual, and the nation in an Inuit community / Richard C. Powell -- Paektudaegan : science and colonialism, memory and mapping in Korean high places / Jong-Heon Jin -- Afterword : 'the unhandselled globe' / J. Nicholas Entrikin.
• Publisher Details: London New York : I.B. Tauris & Co
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 304.2/309143; Cultural geography; Altitude, Influence of; Mountains; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography; Altitude, Influence of; Cultural geography; Mountains; Hochland; Anthropogeografie; montagne -- études diverses; zone polaire -- études diverses; Polar regions; Polar regions; Polargebiete; Electronic books; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441629654; 1441629653; 9780857713223; 0857713221
• Related ISBNs: 9781845116163; 184511616X; 9781845116170; 1845116178
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.