ARCTIC SPECTACLES

The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818-1885









Russell A. Potter

Arctic Spectacles: The Frozen North in Visual Culture, 1818–1875 illuminates the nineteenth-century fascination with visual representations of the Arctic, weaving together a narrative of the major Arctic expeditions with an account of their public reception through art and mass media.

Arctic Spectacles has just been published by the University of Washington Press (USA and World) and McGill-Queen’s University Press (Canada).  Learn more about this book by clicking on “About the Book” or any of the other links at the top of this page.