| Description |
1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies |
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Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A world that is losing its margins -- 1 Emotions and mountaineering for internationalist purposes: The case of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA), 1939-1951 -- 2 Power, politics and exploration in fascist Italy: The 1928 watershed -- 3 Roald Amundsen vs Umberto Nobile: The role of the newspapers in the age of nationalism and polar imperialism -- 4 Umberto Nobile between two totalitarianisms |
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5 Imperialist Italian geography currents in the work of Roberto Almagià and his ambiguous relationship with the fascist regime -- 6 Walter Wood and the legacies of science and alpinism in the St Elias Mountains -- 7 Physiology and biomedicine on high-altitude expeditions (c. 1880-1980) -- 8 Italian geographers, scientists, travellers and mountaineers in the Karakoram (1890-1954) -- 9 Commercialisation and Mount Everest in the twentieth century -- 10 Geographical exploration via the environmental humanities: Decolonising approaches to space |
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Appendix: The rediscovery of two files relating to the Karakoram (1928-1929) and North Pole (1928) expeditions conserved at the Municipal Archives in Milan -- Index of names and places |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Extreme environments.
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Extreme environments
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Biasillo, Roberta
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Morosini, Stefano
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| ISBN |
9781000624083 |
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1000624080 |
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