Mawson's will : the greatest survival story ever written /

Mawson's will : the greatest survival story ever written /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bickel, Lennard.
Imprint:	New York : Stein and Day, 1977.
Description:	237 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Mawson, Douglas, -- 1882-1958. Mawson, Douglas, -- 1882-1958. Australasian Antarctic Expedition -- (1911-1914) Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Explorers -- Australia -- Biography. Discovery and exploration, Australian. Explorers. Antarctica -- Discovery and exploration -- Australian. Antarctica. Antarctica. Australia. Biographies Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10505443

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ISBN:	0812821771
Notes:	London ed. published under title: This accursed land.
Summary:	An account of Sir Douglas Mawson's explorations of and discoveries in Antarctica and of his remarkable survival, in 1912, of a solitary trudge through snow, wind, and bitter cold without food or drink.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / by Sir Edmund Hillary " K.B.E. 1953
The two tents : the cruel continent, The assault : the rejected invitation
Driven Westward
- The kingdom of blizzards
The Winter of intent
Outward bound
Discovery and death
In peril on the ice
Diet of Dog
Cross in the snow
One pair of feet
Corpse in a crevasse
A colored bag
Aladdin's beacon
A Winter to wait
Sequel : The contract stands
An appreciation / by Eric N. Webb, D.S.O., M.C.