Gronland - Wo Nacht Und Kalte Wohnt: Eine Imagologische Analyse Des Gronland-Diskurses Im 18. Jahrhundert [German]

by Maike Schmidt

English summary: The aim of this project is to examine the log books, travelogues, and diaries of eighteenth-century whalers plying their trade in the offshore waters of Greenland and Svalbard, with an eye to how they imagined the farthest reaches of the North. In a second step, the literary, scientific, and historico-philosophical reception of these images is to be analyzed and compared. How and why did the images of this region change during...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3899718275
• ISBN13: 9783899718270
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.7"