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Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the epic journey undertaken by Douglas Mawson, who suffered starvation, the loss of his team, and a crippling foot injury as he resorted to crawling back to base camp during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1913.
Author
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 737 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Douglas Mawson was an Australian original, a great polar explorer in the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration. This book focuses on Mawson's extraordinary feats in Antarctica, in tandem with the giants of the age, Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen.
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