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Author : Anonim
Publisher : New Holland Publishers (AU)
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781921836350
Author : Craig Cormick
Publisher : New Holland Publishers (AU)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 1742570089
Departing Hobart on a seven-week voyage on board the RSV Aurora Australis, Craig Cormick is fulfilling a long-time dream to visit the frozen continent of Antarctica - an adventure to one of the few under-discovered regions of the world. As the ship navigates its way through the wild Southern Ocean and explores the icy coastline of the Antarctic continent, Craig muses about - and with - the great explorer and geologist Douglas Mawson. Mawson's ill-fated but scientifically successful Australasian Antarctic Expedition sailed from Hobart in 1911, as Scott and Amundsen were embarking on their race to the South Pole. Visiting the three Australian bases, with Mawson's ghost at his side, Craig Cormick describes the exhilaration of seeing his first iceberg, climbing a mountain on the Antarctic plateau, flying in a helicopter over the Vestfold Hills, photographing Adelie penguins, seeing the spectacular Aurora Australis in the sky, smelling elephant seals and discovering the mysteries of 'crap and wrap' field toilets. In Bed with Douglas Mawson is a humorous and thoughtful exploration of the enduring spirit of discovery, adventure and comradeship around Antarctica.
Author : Beau Riffenburgh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408842683
Scott, Shackleton and Mawson were the three great explorers of the Edwardian age. Now Beau Riffenburgh tells the forgotten story of Douglas Mawson and his death-defying expedition of 1911-14. A key member of Ernest Shackleton's famous Nimrod Expedition, Mawson led his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition. However, following the tragic deaths of the other members of his sledging party, he was left to struggle the hundreds of miles back to base alone, only to find that the relief ship had sailed away, leaving him to face another year in Antarctica. Having survived with a small band of men against incredible odds, he later led a groundbreaking two-year expedition which explored hundreds of miles of unknown coastline. Mawson's is a story of true heroism and a fascinating insight into the human psyche under extreme duress.
Author : Douglas Mawson
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1620874091
In The Home of the Blizzard, Sir Douglas Mawson records his historic expedition to explore uncharted land in Antarctica. Pitted against formidable natural forces, he and his team faced unrelenting winds with speeds of up to two hundred miles per hour as well as freezing temperatures and day-long blizzards. They traversed the previously unexplored King George V Land directly south of Australia and collected geological samples and magnetic readings. After accident and illness led to the death of his two teammates, a starving and frostbitten Mawson finished one hundred miles of the return journey alone. Mawson kept a detailed journal of his expedition, reprinted here in the popular abridged version from 1930. He puts the reader at the cold, windy scene with vivid descriptions of the men and their sled dogs persevering over rough terrain. Mawson's thoughts upon losing his colleague Lt. Belgrave Ninnis in a deep, snow-covered crevasse in a glacier or while dangling from his own sled in another crevasse while alone and near death convey the dual excitement and danger that accompany his unique expedition. Readers will be swept up in Sir Douglas Mawson's amazing and historic adventures. The over 300 accompanying photographs taken during the Antarctic trip paint a vivid picture of that harsh and extraordinary land.
Author : Wilbur Garrett
Publisher : UB Tech
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Douglas Mawson made an immeasurable contribution to the history of scientific research in Antarctica. He was raised in Sydney and had a strong interest in science and exploration, which inspired him to enrol in the University of Sydney's geology and mineralogy programme. Mawson made renowned contributions to Antarctic research and science, and his tale of perseverance and survival throughout the voyage has come to represent the strength and resolve of people everywhere. Mawson left a lasting legacy that continues to serve as motivation for adventurers, scientists, and explorers today. His solo journey through all the difficulties and bearing the weight of the death of his companions was the most important part of his voyage. Mawson's persistent will and courage in the face of unimaginable hardship are proof of the determination of the human spirit. For many decades to come, his contributions as an explorer, scientist, and supporter of nature will be honoured and cherished.
Author : David Parer,Elizabeth Parer-Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Antarctic regions
ISBN : 0949681016
Author : Lady Paquita (Delprat) Mawson
Publisher : [London] : Longmans
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Antarctic regions
ISBN : UOM:39015019768582
Author : Tim Jarvis
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 0522854869
In Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica, explorer Tim Jarvis relives Sir Douglas Mawson's extraordinary polar survival journey of 1912-13. Battling against ferocious blizzards and headwinds, Jarvis struggles to overcome extreme isolation, physical deprivation and his own self-doubt. He embarks on his hellish journey using the same equipment, clothing and starvation rations as Mawson had available to him almost a century ago in an attempt to answer some of the questions and controversies surrounding Mawson's tragic expedition in which both of his companions died. This is the story of two journeys, undertaken a century apart, to the limits of human endurance.
Author : Paquita Delprat,Douglas Mawson
Publisher : Melbourne University
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : PSU:000044796686
Annotated collection of letters between Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson and his fiancee, Paquita Delprat. Provides biographical information about both correspondents as well as giving an insght into Mawson's harrowing time in Antarctic. Includes references, a bibliography, a biographical index and a general index. The author is a former radio journalist who has written and edited a number of books.
Author : David Day
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493016266
Douglas Mawson was determined to make his mark on Antarctica as no other explorer had done before him. What really happened on the ice has been buried for a century. Flaws in the Ice is the untold true story of Douglas Mawson’s 1911-1914 Antarctic Expedition, mistakenly hailed for a century as a courageous survival story from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Prize-winning historian David Day takes off on a five-week odyssey in search of the real Douglas Mawson, famed colleague and contemporary of Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott. Beginning his book on board an expedition ship bound for the Antarctic, Dr. Day asks the difficult questions that have hitherto lain buried about Mawson —, his leadership of the ill-fated Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14, his conduct during the trek that led to the death of his two companions, and his intimate relationship with Scott’s widow. The author also explores the ways in which Mawson subsequently concealed his failures and deficiencies as an explorer, and created for himself a heroic image that has persisted for a century. To bolster his career and dig himself out of debt, Mawson would have to return from Antarctica with a stirring story of achievement calculated to capture public attention. South Pole expeditions, by-among others--Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen--were going on at same time With Amundsen having reached the South Pole-- and Scott having died on his return--Mawson would be forgotten if he did not return with an exciting story of achievement and adversity overcome. Mawson obliged, though the truth was something entirely different. For many decades, there has been only one published first-hand account of the expedition —Mawson’s. Only now have alternative accounts become publicly available. The most important of these is the long-suppressed diary of Mawson’s deputy, Cecil Madigan, who is scathing in his criticisms of Mawson’s abilities, achievements, and character that he instructed that his diary was not to be published until the last of Mawson’s children had died. At the same time, other accounts have appeared from leading members of the expedition that also challenge Mawson’s official story. While most historians ascribe the deaths of the two men to bad luck, the author’s re-examination of the existing evidence, and a reading of the new evidence, reveals that the deaths of two men on the expedition were caused by Mawson’s relative inexperience, overweening ambition, and poor decision-making. In fact, there’s some suggestion that Mawson was consciously responsible for one’s starvation so that Mawson himself could survive on the limited food rations. After the death of his companions, Mawson’s bungling of his return to the ship forced a team to remain for another full year during which he recovered his strength and began to craft an image of himself as a courageous and resourceful polar explorer. The British Empire needed heroes, and Mawson was determined to provide it with one. In this compelling and revealing new book, David Day draws upon all this new evidence, as well as on the vast research he undertook for his international history ofAntarctica, and on his own experience of sailing to the Antarctic coastline where Mawson’s reputation was first created. Flaws in the Ice will change perceptions of Douglas Mawson—one of the icons of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration— forever.
Author : Emma McEwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antarctica
ISBN : 192103730X
AN ANTARCTIC AFFAIR, a story of love and survival, is written by Emma McEwin, the greatgranddaughter of Sir Douglas and Lady (Paquita) Mawson. When scientist and explorer, Douglas Mawson leaves for the Antarctic in December 1911, as leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, he expects to return and marry his fiancee, Paquita Delprat fifteen months later. However, in the southern summer of 1912, while on a three-man sledging journey, his two travelling companions both die in horrific circumstances, leaving Douglas to travel the last one hundred miles to safety alone, on the brink of starvation. He survives but his late return to base in February 1913 leads to him missing the ship back to Australia and he is forced to endure a second winter in the Antarctic, in the windiest region on earth, with six other men, one of whom loses his mind. By the time he returns to Australia in February 1914, he has not seen Paquita for more than two years and barely communicated with her, the minimal contact and the long separation having pushed her love and patience almost to the limit. Inspired by their story and their characters since childhood, Emma explores the reasons why her great-grandfather survived and the very important role Paquita, who became his wife and biographer, played in his survival and success. Drawing on the love letters that Paquita and Douglas wrote to each other during their engagement, 1910-14, which were discovered by chance in the 1990s and published in 2000, stories and anecdotes passed on to her from her grandmother, as well as the huge body material held publicly and privately by the Mawson family, Emma presents the practical-minded scientist and academic, Douglas Mawson, in a warmer light, as a man who was in his own way, a romantic and capable of deep love. Her book is unique in that she weaves in stories of other explorers and expeditions and, by putting Douglas Mawson in polar and historical context, and by according Paquita the recognition she deserves as his greatest supporter, we gain a new appreciation of his extraordinary achievements.
Author : David Jensen
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781925266498
In 1911, the Australian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson left Hobart on the Aurora, headed for Antarctica. Much is known about Mawson and tales of his exploits are often retold. But Mawson did not go alone. What of the men who set off with him and without whom he could have achieved little? Who were they? Where did they come from? The 32 land-based members of the AAE of 1911-14 selected to explore part of the Antarctic continent where no person had set foot before, had an average age of just 26. They included three doctors, two soldiers, engineers, sailors, a Rhodes Scholar, a meteorologist, wireless operators, a photographer, a former 'female' spy, a lawyer-cum-mountaineer, an architectural draftsman and scientists. Just three had previously experienced the cold, loneliness, potential danger and isolation that only Antarctica offers. The remaining 29 could safely be described as enthusiastic novices; some had probably never before seen snow. Two of them were not to return, but all will remain part of the Antarctic's 'heroic era' of exploration.
Author : Douglas Mawson
Publisher : London : W. Heinemann
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Antarctic regions
ISBN : UCAL:B4508085
"This account, so profusely illustrated by the magnificent photographs of Frank Hurley is a classic of Polar literature, describing the first major scientific exploring venture by an Australian beyond their shores. Mawson's lone survival after the fatal tragedy of his two companions (Ninnis and Mertz) was to become the most extraordinary epic of survival in Antarctica. He was undoubtedly one of the most outstanding explorers of the 20th century and ranks high among our national icons" -- abebooks website.
Author : Sir Douglas Mawson,Fred Jacka
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0043202098
Reissue of the text of Douglas Mawson's diaries covering his four expeditions to the Antarctic. Includes editorial commentary and notes, maps, and details on the various base personnel. First published in 1988.
Author : Eleanor Jacka,Fred Jacka
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743438145
Sir Douglas Mawson, Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer, made four trips to the Antarctic: in 1907-09 with Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition; in 1911-14, having declined to join Scott's ill-fated Antarctic journey, as leader of the Australasian Antarctic expedition; and twice between 1929 and 1931 as leader of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE). Mawson's Antarctic Diaries brings together for the first time all his descriptive writings while in the Antarctic. An uncensored record of events, they reveal Mawson's innermost thoughts at times of great stress and conflict on ship and on shore, through achievement and failure, joy and tragedy. This book includes some of Frank Hurley's most famous Antarctic photographs, as well as some not reproduced before.
