Radio host Kevin Fox interviews
Michael F. Robinson about the history of American Arctic exploration, the subject of his book,
The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2006). The disappearance of the Franklin Expedition in 1845 turned the Arctic into an object of fascination. By the end of the century, it had become an ‘Arctic Fever.’ Fox is the host of the radio program
Geographical Imaginations for RadioFabrik in Salzburg, which is also available on iTunes as a podcast.