The Explorer is a book, a poem, this project.

Introduction

I wanted to know how it is positioned within its time and place, and as I began to understand these two things, how it is positioned in a larger social network…

There is a story in a book, and there is the story of a book. This is the latter, or rather, it is the story that a book unveils, how it can open a world and be indicative of a time and place.

Context, connections, and serendipitous discoveries – not writing a history

Vector

Here, we are examining The Explorer, the book, through the lens of time and place. Privately produced in 1924, it contains the Kipling poem by the same name. We are also looking at time and place through this book, not as a history, but instead as a study of how an object, in this case a rare book, opens up a world of discovery. This primary source….

Here, we are examining The Explorer, the book, through the lens of time and place. Privately produced in 1924, it contains the Kipling poem by the same name. We are also looking at time and place through this book, not as a history, but instead as a study of how an object, in this case a rare book, opens up a world of discovery.

Primary source-driven research in archives, online digital collections, historical newspaper databases, and …a lot of serendipity

The Book ⇨