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Explorations in the Icy North - University of Pittsburgh Press
|9780822946595|How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century|Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the First International Polar Year in 1882. The IPY brought together researchers from multiple countries with the aim of undertaking systematic and coordinated…
