Bibliograph

Alone on the ice, the greatest survival story in the history of exploration, David Roberts ; [photographs by Frank Hurley]

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Label

Alone on the ice, the greatest survival story in the history of exploration, David Roberts ; [photographs by Frank Hurley]

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-349) and index

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contains biographical information

Illustrations

mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alone on the ice

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

815873306

Responsibility statement

David Roberts ; [photographs by Frank Hurley]

Sub title

the greatest survival story in the history of exploration

Summary

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface.Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, "Which one are you?"This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley{u2019}s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States

Table Of Contents

Forgotten by God -- Prof Doggo -- Cape Denison -- Home of the blizzard -- Painful silence -- Dead easy to die -- Winter madness

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Greatest survival story in the history of exploration

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