The Art of Discovery: How Explorers’ Sketchbooks Transformed Our View of the World
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CECIL H. AND IDA GREEN VISITING PROFESSOR’S LECTURE
Huw Lewis-Jones, historian; Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor
Woodward Instructional Resource Centre Lecture Hall 2, UBC
Saturday, October 28, 8:15-9:30 pmin
The Vancouver Institute Lectures -
Huw Lewis-Jones
Hugh Lewis-Jones is an award-winning author who writes and lectures widely about maritime history, exploration and the visual arts. He travels across the Arctic and Antarctica each year working as a polar guide and naturalist. His work has been published in more than a dozen languages and includes books such as Mountain Heroes (2011), The Crossing of Antarctica (2014), Across the Arctic Ocean (2015), and Explorers’ Sketchbooks (2016). His latest book is Imagining the Arctic (2017). In 2015 he was awarded the Inaugural Leif Erikson Exploration History Award by The Exploration Museum in Iceland. Dr. Lewis-Jones was formerly Curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge and the National Maritime Museum in London.
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Unless otherwise noted, all of our lectures are free to attend and do not require registration.
October 28, 2017
1:15 pm to 2:30 pm
Lecture Hall No. 2
2194 Health Sciences Mall