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The greatest polar survival story ever written lennard bickel 9781586420000. Australian sir douglas mawson chose not to go with robert scott to the south pole in 1911, but instead set out on a less prestigious expedition to chart antarcticas coastline. An ambitious programme of exploration and science, the expedition ended with disaster, when mawsons two colleagues on his trip out failed to return. Possibly one of the greatest stories of polar survival, along with shackleton and his mens endurance expedition. Racing with death douglas mawson antarctic explorer beau riffenburgh.
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He led a research expedition into antarctica to explore a 2000milelong coastline, the majority of which had never been seen by human eyes. Mawson, ninnis and mertz set off on their expedition to map the far east of king george v land 14 dec. Ninnis, the six best dogs, almost all of the food and the bulk of their most. Possibly one of the greatest stories of polar survival, along with shackleton and his men s endurance expedition. Mawsons mill the greatest survival story ever written. I read this story about antarctic survival many years ago, and found it absolutely captivating. Only criticism is the lack of adequate maps of antarctica generally showing geographic features mentioned in text and routes of various expeditions. Mertz glacier on the george v coast in east antarctica is named after him. Douglas mawson australasian antarctic expedition 19111914 page 2. We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. It became what is probably the greatest story of lone survival in polar exploration. In that original foreword hillary described mawsons saga. Douglas mawson the home of the blizzard appendix 7 equipment.
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