TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCorristine, Shane
AB  - Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
DO  - 10.14324/111.9781787352452
ID  - OAPEN ID: 651056
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1052106329
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29971
KW  - arctic exploration
KW  - spectral arctic
KW  - dreams
KW  - ghosts
KW  - Clairvoyance
KW  - Franklin's lost expedition
KW  - Inuit
KW  - Jane Franklin
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTD Oral history
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTM Maritime history
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBG Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge::JBGB Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americas
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regions
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology
KW  - thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
KW  - thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
KW  - thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics
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LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/32403
PB  - UCL Press
PY  - 2018
SN  - 9781787352476
SN  - 9781787352469
SN  - 9781787352483
SN  - 9781787352490
SN  - 9781787352506
TI  - The Spectral Arctic : A History of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration
ER  - 
