Mawson [sound recording] / Peter FitzSimons ; read by Paul English.
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SoundPublisher number: BAB 111121 | Bolinda AudioPublication details: Tullamarine, Vic. : Bolinda Audio, p2011Edition: MP3 edDescription: 2 sound discs (MP3 CD) (23 hr., 57 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. ; in containerISBN: 9781742856100Subject(s): Mawson, Douglas Sir, 1882-1958 -- Travel -- Antarctica | Explorers -- Australia -- Biography | Talking books | Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- AustralianDDC classification: 998.9 | 919.8904 Read by Paul English.Summary: 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 five weeks, tragedy struck. Ninnis was swallowed whole by a snow-covered crevasse, and Mawson and Mertz realised it was too dangerous to go on. With the scant food and provisions they had left, turning back was almost equally perilous. Their 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 Mertz, and he succumbed to madness and then to death. Mawson found himself all alone, 160 miles from safety, with next to no food.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- audio | Northam Northam General Stacks | 919.89 FIT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | MP3 | 31111044117644 |
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MP3 CD.
Bolinda Audio: BAB 111121.
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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 five weeks, tragedy struck. Ninnis was swallowed whole by a snow-covered crevasse, and Mawson and Mertz realised it was too dangerous to go on. With the scant food and provisions they had left, turning back was almost equally perilous. Their 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 Mertz, and he succumbed to madness and then to death. Mawson found himself all alone, 160 miles from safety, with next to no food.
Read by Paul English.
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