Scope and Purpose With a temporal span beginning in 1796 and ending in 1909, this thesis takes an interdisciplinary approach to investigating the abundance of ways in which people of all social classes in the long-nineteenth-century were able to engage with the Arctic. Encompass…
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By the time Christopher Columbus set out on his voyages into the Atlantic Ocean, these seas had been well explored--at least on paper. Rather than simply accepting this body of water as an unknown, cartographers and geographical writers of the period presented a variety of depic…