SOUTH POLE: NATURE AND CULTURE

Book ID/图书代码： 14932918C00039

English Summary/英文概要： The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after location. The endpoint of exploration’s most famous ’race’ between teams led by Robert F. Scott and Roald Amundsen, the Pole has more recently become a favoured destination of ’extreme’ tourists. Like the whole of Antarctica, ’90 South’ does not belong to any nation, but six national claims meet there, and for nearly sixty years the US has occupied the site with a series of scientific stations. The Pole is a deeply political place.In South Pole Elizabeth Leane explores the important challenges that this strange place poses to humanity. What is its lure? How and why should people live there? How can creative artists respond to its apparent blankness? What can it teach us about our planet and ourselves? Along the way, she considers the absurdities and banalities of human engagement with the Pole.Ranging from the ancient Greeks to the present, and featuring spectacular images of the South Pole, this book offers a fascinating history of the symbolic ’heart’ of the Antarctic.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 地理上的南极是一个充满了自相矛盾的地方。它是地球自转的一个点，然而它却很容易从我们的地图边缘上被忽略。一处不易被发现的制高点，贫瘠的冰层高原，极地没有任何有价值的物质，但这里仍然趋之若鹜。由罗伯特·f·斯科特(英国海军军官、极地探险家)和罗尔德·阿蒙森(挪威极地探险家，第一个到达南极点的人)率领的探险队之间最著名的“竞赛”的终点，最近，极地成为“极限”游客青睐的目的地。和整个南极洲一样，南极圈不属于任何一个国家，但这里已有六个国家的领土主张，近60年来，美国在这里建起了一系列科学考察站。极地是一个政治色彩浓厚的地方。 (Sandy)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 伊丽莎白·莱恩(Elizabeth Leane) 塔斯马尼亚大学英语副教授。著有《读懂通俗无力》(Reading Popular Physics (2007) 和《小说中的南极洲》(Antarctica in Fiction (2012), 还参与共同编辑了《就动物而言》(Considering Animals (2011)

Elizabeth Leane is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tasmania. She is the author of Reading Popular Physics (2007) and Antarctica in Fiction (2012), and the co-editor of Considering Animals (2011).

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