Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1875
Russell A. Potter
Product Description
The challenge of conveying a vivid sense of the danger and splendour of the frigid zones of the Arctic was admirably met in the Victorian age by means of fixed and moving panoramas, lantern exhibitions and entertainingly chronicled in this book.
University of Washington Press, paperback, 2007, 258 pages.