Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
by Peter Fitzsimons
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- 9781742752792
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Heinemann, Australia, 2012. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback. 737 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Heinemann, Australia, 2012. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The story of Australia's most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton. Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on his way to fulfil a national dream he had first conceived three years earlier, while on his first trip to the frozen continent on the Nimrod expedition under the leadership of the charismatic Anglo-Irishman Sir Ernest Shackleton. Even as Mawson and his men were approaching Antarctica, two other famous Antarctic explorers were already engaged in nothing less than a race to become the first men to reach the South Pole. While Roald Amundsen of Norway, with his small team, was racing with dogs along one route, England's legendary Scott of the Antarctic, with his far larger team, was relying primarily on ponies and man-hauling' to get there along another. As Mawson and his men make their home on the windiest place on earth and prepare for their own record-breaking treks, with devastating drama to be their constant companion. the stories of Amundsen and Scott similarly play out. *** Quantity Available: 2. Category: Exploration; ISBN/EAN: 9781742752792. Inventory No: 18100094.. 9781742752792
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- Bookseller
- Manyhills Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18100094
- Title
- Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
- Author
- Peter Fitzsimons
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1742752799
- ISBN 13
- 9781742752792
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Exploration; Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
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