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First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

“A comprehensive and lively book about the people and events that transformed Antarctica into an international laboratory for science.”—Raimund E. Goerler

Arguing that Antarctica is the most mediated place on earth and thus an ideal location for testing the limits of bio-political management of population and plac

The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and se

This first comprehensive exploration of literary responses to Antarctica maps the far south as a space of the imagination.