Lithanamnesis: Isolation, Memory and Longing in Mountaineering Narratives by POWs in World War Two

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Mountaineering Literature, Travel Literature, Prisoners of War, World War Two, Isolation

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Published

2020-12-23

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Thinking Space

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