Climates of Sight: Mistaken Visibilities, Mirages and ‘Seeing Beyond’ in Antarctica

High Places: Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 48-63

  Yusoff, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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