Mawson And The Ice Men Of The Heroic Age. Scott, Shackleton And Amundsen

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: William Heinemann
Publisher Place: North Sydney
Publisher Year: 2011
Edition: First Edition

Description: 737 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The incredible story of Australias most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar explorationDouglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australias greatest Antarctic explorer. This is the incredible account of an expedition he led on December 2, 1911, from Hobart, to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. After setting up Main Base at Cape Denision and Western Base on Queen Mary Land, he headed east on an extraordinary sledging trek with his companions, Belgrave Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz. After five weeks, tragedy struck—Ninnis was swallowed whole by a snow-covered crevasse, and Mawson and Mertz realized it was too dangerous to go on. Dwindling supplies forced them to kill their dogs to feed the other dogs, at first, and then themselves. Hunger, sickness, and despair eventually got the better of Ninnis, and he succumbed to madness and then to death. Mawson found himself all alone, 160 miles from safety, with next to no food. This staggering tale of his survival, against all odds, also masterfully interweaves the stories of the other giants from the heroic age of polar exploration, to bring the jaw-dropping events of this bygone era dazzlingly back to life.

ISBN: 9781741666601