Mawson's Antarctic Diaries

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Allen & Unwin, 1. okt 2008 - 524 pages
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.
 

Selected pages

Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
COLOUR HANDTINTED PHOTOGRAPHS
British Antarctic Expedition December 1907 February 1909
Between pages3667 Atlas CoveHeard IslandThreecheers for the King Proclamation IslandMawson and Campbellin the planeUnidentified icebergPost...
Australasian
year at Commonwealth
British Australianand New Zealand
British Australian
Maps
BAE Personnel
Appendix 3
IceTerminology Appendix 5
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Mawson's Antarctic Diaries
Eleanor Jacka,Fred Jacka
Limited preview - 2008
Mawson's Antarctic Diaries
Sir Douglas Mawson,Fred Jacka,Eleanor Jacka
No preview available - 1988

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About the author (2008)

Dr Fred Jacka was Director of the Mawson Institute for Antarctic Research, University of Adelaide. After graduating from the University of Melbourne in physics and mathematics, he joined the first Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) and spent 1948 at Heard Island as a physicist. In 1965 he was appointed the first Director of the Mawson Institute. Fred Jacka died in 1992.

Eleanor Jacka studied philosophy and Russian literature at the University of Melbourne, and education at the University of Adelaide. She has taught Russian at Adelaide University and translated several contemporary Russian literary works.

Bibliographic information

PealkiriMawson's Antarctic Diaries
AutoridEleanor Jacka, Fred Jacka
PublisherAllen & Unwin, 2008
ISBN1743438141, 9781743438145
Length524 pages
  
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