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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: Visuality and the Arctic Regions | |
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Plates | |
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A Foretaste of Those Icy Climes: Britain's Arctic Circles | |
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Producing a Perfect Map of the Ice: Henry Aston Barker's Panorama of 1820 | |
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Munchausen on Ice: The Mythic Mis-taking of John Ross | |
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The Awful Aspect of the Scene: Arctic Panoramas and the Northern Sublime | |
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The Sea of Ice | |
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Ross's Return and the Panorama of Boothia | |
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The Killing Glitter of the Stars: Spectacles of the Search for Franklin | |
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The Desolate Sublimity of This Astounding Spectacle: Dickens and the Panoramic Urge | |
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That Far-distant and Mysterious Region: The Arctic in Moving Panoramas | |
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News, Rumor, and Speculation | |
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A Leisure Hour in the Frozen Regions: The Arctic in the Illustrated Press | |
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The Contents of the Kettles | |
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Things Dimly Shadowed Forth: Picturing the "Last Dread Alternative" | |
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Whom Earth Denies a Grave: The Ends of Science | |
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The Eventful Voyage of HMS Resolute | |
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The Arctic Panoramas of Elisha Kent Kane | |
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In Memoriam Elisha Kent Kane | |
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The Heart of the Western Wilderness: Kane Panoramas on Tour, 1857-1863 | |
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Kane Marches On: Panoramas, Stereoviews, and Lantern Shows | |
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Testing the Region of the Ice-Bound Soul: Private Drama and Public Spectacle | |
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Lost i' the Land o' Ice and Snow: Visions of the Fate of Franklin | |
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The Crying of Two Thousand People: The Frozen Deep in Manchester | |
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A Late and Sad Discovery: Death and the Arctic Sublime | |
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Bones - No Need to Ask Whose | |
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Man Proposes, God Disposes | |
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Curiosities of Unusual Interest: The Arctic Shows of Charles Francis Hall | |
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A Most Weird and Beautiful Picture: Church's Visions of the Arctic Regions, 1860-1864 | |
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The Photographic Artist: William Bradford and the Close of the Panoramic Era | |
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Epilogue: New Media, New Horizons | |
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Arctic Shows and Entertainments, 1819-1896: An Annotated Chronological Checklist | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |
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