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Journeys through Fascism: Italian Travel Writing between the Wars

for polar research during the period between the mid-nineteenth century and the late 1920s. The bibliography and the carefully selected illustrations are an additional asset of the book as they provide access to the most relevant primary and secondary sources and thus enable historians interested in polar research and nationalism to dig deeper into the history of Italian nationalism related to polar research, and Italian historians to access the standards of polar history. Besides praise and minor criticism for Nencioni’s research, it should be mentioned that the book provides in its appendix Finn Malgren’s complete diary of the second flight of the airship Italia and thus provides easy access to a not wellknown but important primary source – definitely not the main reason to acquire the book, but an additional asset. Altogether, Nencioni’s book can strongly be recommended, in particular as it clearly demonstrates that re-visiting well-known topics, like the history of polar research, might provide complete new explanations when it comes to topics like colonialism and nationalism. Bringing together topics like Italian and polar history might be an unexpected approach, but definitely shows that historical research today depends on international cooperation as much as polar research did a century ago. Maybe the book should be read as a reminder for historians to embark on the same strategy as Italian polar researchers did: international cooperative research instead of entrenched national historical research.