Hester Blum: 2 books
The View from the Masthead
Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere....
The News at the Ends of the Earth
The Print Culture of Polar Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging. As the polar ice sheets melt, fragments of this archive are newly emergent....