Table of contents of the issue 1/2016, January-April
At the End of the World. Extreme Places and the British Imagination (edited by Nicoletta Brazzelli and Frédéric Regard)
"By a Course Never Sailed Before": Exploration and Metafiction in Daniel Defoe's A New Voyage round the World
Natural History in R.M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island: Shaping Masculinity at the Margin of the World
"I hope none have miscarried": Letters and the Imaginary Space of the Arctic
Domesticating the North: Anthony Trollope's Re-writing of Iceland
"Like the End of the World": Samuel White Baker and Charles George Gordon in Central Africa
W.H. Hudson and Bruce Chatwin in Patagonia: The Phantasy of Disappearance
"Keep it, Guard it, Care for it": Alan Paton's Cry, the Beloved Country and Environmental Conscience
Extreme Place and Metaphysical Experience: the Australian Desert in Patrick White's Voss
An Environmental Venture into the Land of Voss
"The desert is mute": Spatial and Linguistic Extremes in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup
"Exotic" people of the North in the Manitoba Museum of Winnipeg
Extreme Places as Sites of Ecological Exploration: Postmodern Wilderness in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam
Archipelagos of Apocalypse in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks
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