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Adventures in Polar Reading – The Book Cultures of High Latitudes

Stam David H. Stam, Deirdre C.
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781605830841
Publisert
2019-07-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Grolier Club of New York
Høyde
9 mm
Bredde
7 mm
Dybde
1 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Stam David H.
Stam, Deirdre C.

Om bidragsyterne

David H. Stam is an American librarian, scholar and author specializing in book history and polar exploration. Deirdre C. Stam is associate professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science of Long Island University and the author of Henson through the Ages. 

Adventures in Polar Reading – The Book Cultures of High Latitudes

Stam David H. Stam, Deirdre C.
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
Stam David H. Stam, Deirdre C.
Innbundet / 2019 / Engelsk
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"Stam is a very lively writer, and what could have been a forced march through a topic as potentially barren as the pack ice proves to be quite fertile, providing polar history geeks with an unexpectedly fascinating examination of an aspect of shipboard life that has received insufficient attention.”

- David James, Anchorage Daily News

“No collection of Arctic or Antarctic books worth its salt—or, perhaps I should say, worth its ice—should be without it."

Arctic Book Review

"The Stams' bibliographic expertise has enabled them over time to research in detail. . . An impressive and ground-breaking volume comprehensively covering 'The Book Cultures of High Latitudes'."

- Colin Steele, Biblionews

Borrowing from his naval experience and his expertise as a historian, David Stam performed extensive archival and secondary research for this study of the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International Polar Year 1881–83 in northernmost Canada. Stam analyzes shipboard- and expedition-based periodicals throughout the so-called Heroic Age of exploration (ca. 1880–1921), as well as the enduring books of Ernest Shackleton’s legendary journey aboard the Endurance. In parallel, he examines the primarily religious literature distributed as Loan Libraries of the American Seamen’s Friend Society, including a description of the three libraries assembled by Richard Evelyn Byrd for the successive bases at Little America (1929–41). Stam concludes with suggestions for further research.
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List of IllustrationsChapter One, Adventures in Polar Writing: The Evolution of This BookChapter Two, “Silent Friends”: Books and Reading on Polar Expeditions(David H. Stam and Deirdre C. Stam)Chapter Three,Libraries on Polar ExpeditionsChapter Four, Arctic Survivals: The Restoration of Records Recovered fromLost Polar Expeditions (John F. Dean and David H. Stam)Chapter Five,Congering the Past:The Books of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1877–1965)Chapter Six,Bending Time: The Function of Periodicals in Nineteenth-CenturyPolar Naval Expeditions (David H. Stam and Deirdre C. Stam)Chapter Seven,New York Times Online: An Historical ExperimentChapter Eight,The Lord’s Librarians: The American Seamen’s Friend Societyand Their Loan Libraries, 1837–1967: An Historical ExcursionChapter Nine,Byrd’s Books: The Antarctic Librariesof Little America, 1928–1941Chapter Ten,The Enduring Books of Shackleton’s Endurance:A Polar Reading Community at SeaChapter Eleven,Quo Vadis? What’s Next?Coda: The Power of PrintAppendicesExpedition Periodicals: A Chronological ListThe American Seamen’s Friend Society Loan LibrariesBooks for the Three Byrd ExpeditionsBooks in Shackleton’s Cabin aboard EnduranceIndex
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"Stam is a very lively writer, and what could have been a forced march through a topic as potentially barren as the pack ice proves to be quite fertile, providing polar history geeks with an unexpectedly fascinating examination of an aspect of shipboard life that has received insufficient attention.”

- David James, Anchorage Daily News

“No collection of Arctic or Antarctic books worth its salt—or, perhaps I should say, worth its ice—should be without it."

Arctic Book Review

"The Stams' bibliographic expertise has enabled them over time to research in detail. . . An impressive and ground-breaking volume comprehensively covering 'The Book Cultures of High Latitudes'."

- Colin Steele, Biblionews

Borrowing from his naval experience and his expertise as a historian, David Stam performed extensive archival and secondary research for this study of the printed needs of several polar expeditions, including those of Adolphus Greely in the International Polar Year 1881–83 in northernmost Canada. Stam analyzes shipboard- and expedition-based periodicals throughout the so-called Heroic Age of exploration (ca. 1880–1921), as well as the enduring books of Ernest Shackleton’s legendary journey aboard the Endurance. In parallel, he examines the primarily religious literature distributed as Loan Libraries of the American Seamen’s Friend Society, including a description of the three libraries assembled by Richard Evelyn Byrd for the successive bases at Little America (1929–41). Stam concludes with suggestions for further research.
Les mer
List of IllustrationsChapter One, Adventures in Polar Writing: The Evolution of This BookChapter Two, “Silent Friends”: Books and Reading on Polar Expeditions(David H. Stam and Deirdre C. Stam)Chapter Three,Libraries on Polar ExpeditionsChapter Four, Arctic Survivals: The Restoration of Records Recovered fromLost Polar Expeditions (John F. Dean and David H. Stam)Chapter Five,Congering the Past:The Books of the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1877–1965)Chapter Six,Bending Time: The Function of Periodicals in Nineteenth-CenturyPolar Naval Expeditions (David H. Stam and Deirdre C. Stam)Chapter Seven,New York Times Online: An Historical ExperimentChapter Eight,The Lord’s Librarians: The American Seamen’s Friend Societyand Their Loan Libraries, 1837–1967: An Historical ExcursionChapter Nine,Byrd’s Books: The Antarctic Librariesof Little America, 1928–1941Chapter Ten,The Enduring Books of Shackleton’s Endurance:A Polar Reading Community at SeaChapter Eleven,Quo Vadis? What’s Next?Coda: The Power of PrintAppendicesExpedition Periodicals: A Chronological ListThe American Seamen’s Friend Society Loan LibrariesBooks for the Three Byrd ExpeditionsBooks in Shackleton’s Cabin aboard EnduranceIndex
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781605830841
Publisert
2019-07-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Grolier Club of New York
Høyde
9 mm
Bredde
7 mm
Dybde
1 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

Forfatter
Stam David H.
Stam, Deirdre C.

Om bidragsyterne

David H. Stam is an American librarian, scholar and author specializing in book history and polar exploration. Deirdre C. Stam is associate professor at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science of Long Island University and the author of Henson through the Ages. 

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