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Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen

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9781743158661: Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age - Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen

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Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer.

On 2 December 1911, he led an expedition 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 tragedy struck, Mawson found himself all alone, 160 miles from safety, with next to no food.

Peter FitzSimons tells the staggering tale of Mawson’s survival, despite all the odds, arriving back just in time to see his rescue ship disappearing over the horizon. He masterfully interweaves the stories of the other giants from the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration—Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen—to bring the jaw-dropping events of this bygone era dazzlingly back to life.

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About the Author

Peter FitzSimons is one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s and Sun Herald’s -most popular columnists, broadcasts daily on Radio 2UE and is a regular contributor to the International Herald Tribune and the London Daily Telegraph. He is the author of seventeen books, including biographies of Nancy Wake, Nene King, John Eales and Steve Waugh. His latest book is Tobruk. He lives with his family in Sydney.

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  • PublisherBolinda Audio
  • Publication date2013
  • ISBN 10 1743158661
  • ISBN 13 9781743158661
  • BindingMP3 CD
  • LanguageEnglish
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