Rethinking geographical explorations in extreme environments : from the Arctic to the mountaintops /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2023.
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| Series: | Routledge explorations in environmental studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A world that is losing its margins / Stefano Morosini, Roberta Biasillo, and Marco Armiero
- Emotions and mountaineering for internationalist purposes : the case of the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA), 1939-1951 / Ilaria Scaglia
- Power, politics and exploration in fascist Italy : the 1928 watershed / Marco Cuzzi
- Roald Amundsen vs Umberto Nobile : the role of the newspapers in the age of nationalism and polar imperialism / Steinar Aas
- Umberto Nobile between two totalitarianisms / Luciano Zani
- Imperialist Italian geography currents in the work of Roberto Almagià and his ambiguous relationship with the fascist regime / Sandro Rinauro
- Walter Wood and the legacies of science and Alpinism in the St. Elias Mountains / Peder Roberts
- Physiology and biomedicine on high-altitude expeditions (c.1880-1980) / Vanessa Heggie
- Italian geographers, scientists, travellers and mountaineers in the Karakoram (1890-1954) / Stefano Morosini
- Commercialization and Mount Everest in the twentieth century / Peter H. Hansen
- Conclusions: Geographical exploration via the environmental humanities : decolonising approaches to space / Roberta Biasillo.