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Indlæser... Polar Horrors: Chilling Tales from the Ends of the Earth31 | 1 | 775,785 |
(4.33) | 1 | Fired up by the accounts of exploring parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of the weird and supernatural began to construct a literary Arctic and Antarctic in which terrors lay undiscovered in the ice and gateways to bizarre hidden worlds were waiting. From James Hogg's lurid North Pole narrative of life amongst polar bears in 'The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon' to tales of mad science and ghostly visitations among the wind-blown expanse of the southern continent, this collection showcases a wealth of neglected material and an overlooked niche of literature obsessed with the limits of human experience.… (mere) |
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▾Offentliggjorte anmeldelser » Tilføj andre forfattere Forfatter navn | Rolle | Hvilken slags forfatter | Værk? | Status | Miller, John | Redaktør | primær forfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Buchan, John | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Doyle, Arthur Conan | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Drummond, Hamilton | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Ellis, Sophie Wenzel | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Ferguson, Malcolm M. | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Hogg, James | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Johnston, Aviaq | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Jones, Idwal | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Kuttner, Henry | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Leahy, John Martin | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Spofford, Harriet Prescott | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet | Weir, Mordred | Bidragyder | medforfatter | alle udgaver | bekræftet |
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Oplysninger fra den engelske Almen Viden Redigér teksten, så den bliver dansk. There is a longstanding conception of the Earth's polar regions that there is nothing much there but vast expanses of featureless ice, fearsome weather, a few solitary wandering bears in the Arctic, huddles of penguins at the other end, above them the glorious Auroras (Borealis at the north; Australis at the south) and very few - if any - signs of human culture. The poles in this tradition represent the absence or even negation of civilisation and politics: the last great wildernesses where nature continues in its purest form. It's an alluring narrative, even if (as we shall see) it isn't true. -Introduction, John Miller, 2022 The original short stories reprinted in the British Library Tales of the Weird series were written and published in a period ranging across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There are many elements of these stories which continue to entertain modern readers; however, in some cases there are also uses of language, instances of stereotyping and some attitudes expressed by narrators or characters which may not be endorsed by the publishing standards of today. -A Note from the Publisher It is well known that the ship, Briel of Amsterdam, took up a Scotsman from the ice of the Polar sea, in the year 1764, and set him ashore at Aberdeen, from whence he had sailed seven years before, in the whaler ship, Anne Forbes. -The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon by James Hogg (1837) | |
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▾Referencer Henvisninger til dette værk andre steder. Wikipedia på engelskIngen ▾Bogbeskrivelser Fired up by the accounts of exploring parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of the weird and supernatural began to construct a literary Arctic and Antarctic in which terrors lay undiscovered in the ice and gateways to bizarre hidden worlds were waiting. From James Hogg's lurid North Pole narrative of life amongst polar bears in 'The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon' to tales of mad science and ghostly visitations among the wind-blown expanse of the southern continent, this collection showcases a wealth of neglected material and an overlooked niche of literature obsessed with the limits of human experience. ▾Biblioteksbeskrivelser af bogens indhold No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThingmedlemmers beskrivelse af bogens indhold
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North
-The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon (1818) by James Hogg
-The Moonstone Mass (1868) by Harriet Prescott Doyle Spofford
-Skule Skerry (1928) by John Buchan
-The Third Interne (1938) by Idwal Jones
-Iqsinaqtutalik Piqtuq: The Haunted Blizzard (2019) by Aviaa Johnston
South
-A Secret of the South Pole (1902) by Hamilton Drummond
-In Amundsen's Tent (1928) by John Martin Leahy
-Creatures of the Light (2010) by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
-Bride of the Antarctic (1939) by Mordred Weir
-Ghost (1943) by Henry Kuttner
-The Polar Vortex (1943) by Malcolm M. Ferguson