The Home Of The Blizzard. The Story Of The Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Publisher Place: Kent Town
Publisher Year: 1996
Edition: Reprint

Description: 438 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Abridged editionIn The Home of the Blizzard Sir Douglas Mawson records his historic expedition to explore uncharted land in Antarctica. Pitted against formidable natural forces, he and his team faced unrelenting winds with speeds of up to two hundred miles per hour as well as freezing temperatures and day-long blizzards. They traversed the previously unexplored King George V Land directly south of Australia and collected geological samples and magnetic readings. After accident and illness led to the death of his two teammates, a starving and frostbitten Mawson finished one hundred miles of the return journey alone.Mawson puts the reader at the cold, windy scene with vivid descriptions of the men and their sled dogs persevering over rough terrain. Mawsons thoughts upon losing his colleague Lt. Belgrave Ninnis in a deep, snow-covered crevasse in a glacier or while dangling from his own sled in another crevasse while alone and near death convey the dual excitement and danger that accompany his unique expedition. Readers will be swept up in Sir Douglas Mawsons amazing and historic adventures. The many accompanying photographs taken during the Antarctic trip paint a vivid picture of that harsh and extraordinary land.Mawsons writings were first published in two volumes, in 1915. An abridged popular edition was published in 1930, and this book is the reprint of that popular abridged version.

ISBN: 9781862543775