White Horizon

White HorizonFrom explorers' accounts to boys' adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation building and empire in nineteenth century Britain. Bridging historical and literary studies, White Horizon explores the importance of the Arctic to British understandings of masculine identity, the nation, and the rapidly expanding British Empire in the nineteenth century. Well before Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein,

An illustrious collection of contributors

SIC and dissolved Ca2+ from carbonates dissolution: i) increase plant growth due to better root growth

'public' utilities

To stop is to begin a movement toward consciousness

too closed

the novel’s central concept of humanity under attack by extraterrestrials has never ceased resonating in pop culture and may have inspired more imitations than any other trope in the science fiction genre

This chapter reviews how naturally-occurring bacteria were screened to find those that suppress downy brome but do not harm native plants and crops

biblical references

This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14

It assesses the strengths and weaknesses on new techniques compared to established priming techniques: drum

and conservation status

including the effects of climate change