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Surveying the Record: North American Scientific Exploration to 1930
A review of a collection of essays on the history and adventure of American exploration with several references to sophisticated analyses of trigonometric surveys, the science of empire building, and natural history exchange networks.
Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology
The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of these authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them.
Mandy Martin’s Artistic Explorations
In this article, Jane Carruthers outline the merits of Mandy Martin’s artwork and the nature of her projects.
What Would Indigenous Taxonomy Look Like? The Case of Blandowski's Australia
In 1862, Wilhelm von Blandowski produced The Encyclopedia of Australia as a large visual atlas of 142 plates dedicated to a comprehensive representation of the continent Australia.
Last Ocean: Paradies am Ende der Welt [The Last Ocean]
This film follows the impacts of fishing on the Ross Sea, a deep bay of Antarctica’s southern ocean.
Go Ganges!
This film follows two friends as they travel the full length of the sacred Ganges River in India.
Let the Daylight Into the Swamp
This film is the filmmaker’s whimsically reconstructed story of his francophone grandparents and their dramatic personal lives in a remote Canadian northwoods logging camp.
Bitumen Exploration and the Southern Re-Inscription of Northeastern Alberta: 1875–1967
Longley traces how geographic and cartographic knowledge of the Athabasca region, Alberta, Canada, colonized the region in the southern imagination long before the oil sands industry began extraction there. The practices of exploration, surveying, and documentation mapped the Athabasca region in terms of its rich bitumen deposits, obscuring the histories of Indigenous people. The south gained political and economic control of the region, although this process is incomplete and contested.
Photograph: Alfred Wegener's propeller sled Schneespatz, 1930
Franz Kebl photographed the propeller sled Schneespatz, used in Alfred Wegener’s 1930 Greenland expedition.