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In a world increasingly linked through electronic media and vast transportation networks, the polar regions remain unpaved, largely unpopulated, and difficult to access. Although the scientific explorations of this century have mapped and studied these vast cold spaces, they remain, except for scattered research sites, largely as they have been for thousands of years. A perennial "last frontier," the far North and the Far South, and the dramatic stories of expeditions lost and rescued, continue to excite the imagination.
Drawing primarily upon the Library's Gerald F. Fitzgerald Polar Collection, To the Ends of the Earth used historical documents, first person accounts, rare maps, paintings, and other artifacts to trace the history of Anglo-American exploration of the North and South poles.
Going to Extremes: The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the Himalayas
October 7, 2000 at 10:00 am
PANEL: Sharon A. Hogan (University of Illinois at Chicago), James W. Van Stone (The Field Museum), Edmund B. Thornton (Thornton Foundation)
CHAIR: Bill Kurtis (Kurtis Productions, Inc.)
Shackleton: The Man and the Expedition
October 14, 2000 at 2 pm at The Field Museum
SPEAKER: Caroline Alexander,
A Social Anthropologist in the Arctic
November 2, 2000 at 6:30 pm at The Field Museum.
SPEAKER: Ernest S. Burch, Jr. (Smithsonian)
The Arctic and Antarctic in Image, Word, and Song. A Multi-media Performance
November 11, 2000 at 11:00 am
PLAYWRIGHT: Douglas Post
The Politics of Polar Exploration
December 9, 2000 at 11:00 am
SPEKAER: Lisa Bloom (University of California, San Diego)
Mapping the Poles
December 16, 2000 at 11:00 am
SPEAKER: Robert W. Karrow, Jr. (Newberry Library)