New Spaces of Exploration

Simon Naylor is Senior Lecturer in Historical Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. He has conducted research into the geographies of fieldwork and exploration in a range of contexts, including Britain, South America, Australia and Antarctica. James R. Ryan is Associate Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of 'Picturing Empire' (London, 1997) and co-editor (with Joan Schwartz) of 'Picturing Place' (London, 2003).

• 1. Exploration and the Twentieth CenturyJames R Ryan and Simon Naylor2. ‘Deeds not Words’? Life writing and early twentieth-century British polar explorationElizabeth Baigent3. Configuring the Field: photography in early twentieth century Antarctic explorationKathryn Yusoff4. Explorations in the Libyan Desert: William J. Harding KingNicola J. Thomas and Jude Hill 5. Fieldwork and the Geographical Career: T. Griffith Taylor and the exploration of AustraliaSimon Naylor6. Glaciology, the Arctic, and the US military Fae L Korsmo7. Assault on the unknown: Geopolitics, Antarctic science and the International Geophysical Year Klaus Dodds 8.‘Britnik’: How America made and destroyed Britain’s first satelliteMatthew Godwin9.High Empire: rocketry and the popular geopolitics of space explorationFraser MacDonald10.Walking in your footsteps: ‘footsteps of the explorers’ expeditions and the contest for Australian desert spaceChristy Collis11.AfterwordFelix DriverNotesBibliographyIndex

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