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Author:   Huw Lewis-Jones (Falmouth University, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.826kg
ISBN:  

9781784536589

ISBN 10:   178453658
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   13 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS List of illustrations Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: THE INVISIBLE THRONE Exploring Heroism | Attractive Performances | A Hagiography of Action | Realms of Representation | Polar Celebrity | Newfangled Technology | Spectacles and Showmen 1 IMAGINING NAVAL HEROES Navy and Nation | A Century of Change | Tars of the Future | Chivalry of the Sea | I will be a Hero | A New Patriotism | Muscular Christianity | Brave Spirits | Duty and Daring | Noble Failure | Curious Cultures of Exploration | Geographies of the Imagination | Arctic Dreams 2 NELSON AND THE BEAR The Making of a Myth | The Expedition and the Anecdote | Fact and Fiction | Southey and an Arctic Image | Polar Performance | Continuing the Tale | Nelsons of Discovery | A School for Future Nelsons | Creative Travels | Distorted Truths | Inventing Things 3 THE PERILS OF CELEBRITY Hero of the Arctic Regions | The Frenzy of Renown | Controversial Beginnings | Reporting Exploration | A Hero in Print | Miscellaneous Missions | Lion of the Season | The Hero Performs | Pub Songs and Ship Ballads | Acts of Discovery | Nautical Melodrama | Reconsidering Re-enactments | Polar Portraits | Panoramic Depictions | Arctic Extravaganza | Reward and Recrimination | The Book | Bitter Criticism | Reputations 4 A FLIGHT OF FANCY Transforming Technologies | Reconstructing the Life of a Showman-Explorer | Searching for Franklin | First Ascents | Lectures and Lobbying | Balloonacy | Daring to be Different | Flights of the Imagination | Perfect Madness | To the Limits 5 EXHIBITING THINGS The New Navalism | Revisiting the Royal Naval Exhibition of 1891 | Appealing Visions | Displaying the Arctic | Propagating Heroic Myths | The End of an Epic | Heroic Sailor-Soul | Inscriptions | Remembering Franklin | Conjecture and Reality | Imaginative Resource 6 FRANKLIN'S GHOST Crushed Geographies | Half-Truths | London Stories | Follow After | Durable Illusions | National Diversions | On the Use of Ships | Glimpses of a Marvel | Who Needs Heroes? | Look Again | Chasing Bears Notes Index

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'Not only does Lewis-Jones explore the hagiography of naval heroes, he also looks at the popular culture surrounding them, especially visual culture, from cheap souvenir prints to vast public panoramic representations of their exploits... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' --CHOICE

'Not only does Lewis-Jones explore the hagiography of naval heroes, he also looks at the popular culture surrounding them, especially visual culture, from cheap souvenir prints to vast public panoramic representations of their exploits... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.'--CHOICE

Author Information

Huw Lewis-Jones is an award-winning historian of exploration, photo-editor and polar guide with a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He was a Fellow at Harvard University and Curator of both the National Maritime Museum in London and the Scott Polar Research Institute. He has travelled widely across the Arctic regions, also voyaging to the North Pole. His many books include Explorers' Sketchbooks (2016), The Crossing of Antarctica (2014), In Search of the South Pole (2011) and Face to Face: Ocean Portraits (2010). In 2015 Huw won the Leif Erikson History Award for his ongoing heritage advocacy.

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