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Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists, Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis, Shamanism and spirit practice, and Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition.

Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists
Controlled discovery queries from doab and oapen matched “ghosts” and “ghosts hauntings”. Retained metadata contains “Ghosts” in the subtitle, “Ghosts” in the description, “haunted” in the description, and 2 additional metadata match(es).
- “ghosts hauntings”· via Directory of Open Access Books
- “ghosts”· via OAPEN Library
- “Ghosts”· in subtitle
- “Ghosts”· in description
- “haunted”· in description
- “Ghosts”· in subject
Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition
Controlled discovery queries from doab matched “clairvoyance”. Retained metadata contains “Clairvoyance” in the subject metadata.
- “clairvoyance”· via Directory of Open Access Books
- “Clairvoyance”· in subject
Shamanism and spirit practice
Retained metadata contains “Shamans” in the description.
- “Shamans”· in description
Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis
Controlled discovery queries from k10plus matched “Mesmerismus”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerismus” in the subject metadata.
- “Mesmerismus”· via K10plus Union Catalog
- “Mesmerismus”· in subject

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
A History of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration Directory of Open Access Books edition 326	2018	UCL Press	English	9781787352452 9781787352469 9781787352476	Open access	Directory of Open Access Books (opens in a new tab) OAPEN Library (opens in a new tab) K10plus Union Catalog (opens in a new tab) K10plus Union Catalog (opens in a new tab)