Bouvetøya: A Cultural History of an Isolated Landmass by Freddy Dewe Mathews
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Self-Published (2013) Bouvetøya: A Cultural History of an Isolated Landmass by Freddy Dewe Mathews is a history of a very obscure island in the Southern Ocean called Bouvet Island. It is the first published history of what is famous for being the most remote place in the world. Designed beautifully by Jasmine Raznahan and Xavier Poultney as a ‘field’ manual, it uses excerpts from key but nevertheless dubious historical expeditions and fictions set on the island, looking at the emotional resonance of a place that despite being real exists to us more as fantasy than reality. Paired with this, is photography selected from the archive at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, specifically from a scientific expedition to the island in 1978. This trip is responsible for the most comprehensive understanding we have of this uninhabited and seldom visited land. £20.00
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