High Places

The late Denis Cosgrove was Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. His recent books include Geography and Vision: Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World (I.B.Tauris, 2008); Apollo's Eye: A Cartographic Genealogy of the Earth in the Western Imagination (2001); and, as editor, Mappings (1999). Veronica della Dora is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Bristol.

• 1. Introduction: High PlacesDenis Cosgrove and Veronica della DoraPart I: Science and Formal Knowledge in High PlacesThe Poles2. Walking in CirclesWilliam Fox (USA - Independent scholar)3. The Ends of the Earth: Narrating Scott, Amundsen and AntarcticaJohn Wylie (University of Exeter)4. Climates of Sight: Mistaken Visibilities, Mirages and ‘Seeing Beyond’ in AntarcticaKathryn Yusoff (Open University)5. Core Matters: Greenland, Denver, and the GISP2 Ice CoreHeather Frazar (Independent scholar) The Mountains6. The Mountains between Corporal Experience and Pure Rationality: the Contradictory Theories of Philippe Buache and Alexander von HumboldtBernard Debarbieux (Geneva University) 7. Domesticating High Places: Mount Athos, Botanical ‘Garden of the Virgin’ Veronica della Dora (University of Bristol) 8. Astronomers at Altitude: Mountain Geography and the Cultivation of Scientific LegitimacyMaria Lane (University of New Mexico)Part II: Local Knowledge and Science in High Places10. Local Populations as Mountain Steward (Valais, Switzerland) Gilles Rudaz (UC Berkeley) 11. Sea Ice MappingMichael Bravo (Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge)12. Canada Day in Resolute: Performing Ritual and Nation in an Inuit CommunityRichard Powell (University of Liverpool) 13. Paektudaegan: Memory, Science, Colonialism and Mapping High Places in Korea Jin Jong-Heon (University of Seoul) 14. AfterwordNick Entrikin (UCLA)