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Russell Alan Potter
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| #3914083 in Books | 2007-10-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.18 x1.19 x8.77l,2.74 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A well-researched, fascinating foray into Victorian-era popular “edutainment”|By Leserin|About 150 years ago, the mystery of the icy, remote polar regions held as much fascination for a wide audience as space travel would a hundred years later. Panorama shows, true mass mediums of their day, were very popular then and many Arctic-themed panoramas toured Britain and||"Russell Potter does an excellent job of describing and analyzing public enthusiasm for visual representation of the Arctic . . . he connects the successes, tribulations, and failures of explorers with accounts of how . . . presentations . . . were imagined, a
When every land seems already explored, and space travel has declined in scope and prestige, the northern exploits of our Victorian forebears offers a pleasantly distant mirror from which to regard our own time. The Arctic regions have been the subject of a long-lasting visual fascination, one which has from the outset crossed boundaries between fine art and mass entertainment, "high" and "low" cultures, and even national identity. In the mid-nineteenth century, this pol...
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