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On the Backs of Others
Edward Armston-Sheret
其他書名
Rethinking the History of British Geographical Exploration
出版U of Nebraska Press, 2024-12
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)History / Expeditions & DiscoveriesHistory / Historical GeographyTravel / General
ISBN14962413479781496241344
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tTE2EQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In the Victorian and Edwardian eras British explorers sought to become respected geographers and popular public figures, downplaying or reframing their reliance on others for survival. Far from being solitary heroes, these explorers were in reality dependent on the bodies, senses, curiosity, and labor of subaltern people and animals.

In On the Backs of Others Edward Armston-Sheret offers new perspectives on British exploration in this era by focusing on the contributions of the people and animals, ordinarily written out of the mainstream histories, who made these journeys possible. He explores several well-known case studies of enduring popular and academic interest, such as Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke’s Nile expeditions (1856–59 and 1860–63); Isabella Bird’s travels in North America, Persia, and East Asia (1872–c. 1900); and Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s two Antarctic expeditions (1901–4 and 1911–13). Armston-Sheret argues that numerous previously ignored stories show the work and agency of subaltern groups. In rethinking the history of exploration On the Backs of Others offers the first book-length study of the relationship between exploration and empire and their legacies within academic geography.