Rethinking geographical explorations in extreme environments : from the Arctic to the mountaintops /: from the Arctic to the mountaintops. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marco Armiero, Roberta Biasillo, Stefano Morosini.
• Editors: Armiero, Marco, 1966-; Biasillo, Roberta; Morosini, Stefano
• Contents: Introduction: A world that is losing its margins; Stefano Morosini, Roberta Biasillo, and Marco Armiero 1. Emotions and Mountaineering for Internationalist Purposes: The case of the Union Internationale des Associations d’Alpinisme (UIAA), 1939-1951; Ilaria Scaglia 2. Power, politics and exploration in fascist Italy: The 1928 watershed; Marco Cuzzi 3. Roald Amundsen vs Umberto Nobile: The role of the newspapers in the age of nationalism and polar imperialism; Steinar Aas 4. Umberto Nobile between two totalitarianisms; Luciano Zani 5. Imperialist Italian geography currents in the work of Roberto Almagià and his ambiguous relationship with the fascist regime; Sandro Rinauro 6. Walter Wood and the Legacies of Science and Alpinism in the St Elias Mountains; Peder Roberts 7. Physiology and biomedicine on high-altitude expeditions (c.1880-1980); Vanessa Heggie 8. Italian geographers, scientists, travellers and mountaineers in the Karakoram (1890-1954); Stefano Morosini 9. Commercialization and Mount Everest in the Twentieth Century; Peter H. Hansen Conclusions: Geographical exploration via the environmental humanities: Decolonising approaches to space; Roberta Biasillo Appendix: The rediscovery of two files relating to the Karakoram (1928-1929) and North Pole (1928) expeditions conserved at the Municipal Archives in Milan; Stefano Twardzik
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 910.9; Discoveries in geography; Extreme environments
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000624144; 9781000624083; 9781003095965
• Related ISBNs: 9780367559830
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