Mawson : and the ice men of the heroic age : Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen / Peter FitzSimons.
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TextPublisher: North Sydney, NSW : William Heinemann, 2014Copyright date: ©2011Edition: This edition published in 2014Description: xxvi, 737 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857987204Subject(s): Mawson, Douglas Sir, 1882-1958 -- Travel -- Antarctica | Shackleton, Ernest Henry Sir, 1874-1922 | Amundsen, Roald, 1872-1928 -- Travel -- Antarctica | Explorers -- Australia -- Biography | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- AustralianDDC classification: 919.8904 Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 713-720) and index.
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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