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The Home Of The Blizzard Being The Story Of The Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 1914
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Author : Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010-01-08
The Home Of The Blizzard Being The Story Of The Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911 1914 written by Douglas Mawson and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mawson turned down an invitation to join Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1910; Australian geologist Griffith Taylor went instead. Dawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including visiting the South Magnetic Pole.
The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Sir Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Home Of The Blizzard written by Sir Douglas Mawson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Antarctica categories.
This is the tale of discovery and adventure in the Antarctic - of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. This is Douglas Mawson's own account of his years in sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds.
The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Sir Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
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The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-07-26
The Home Of The Blizzard written by Douglas Mawson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-26 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 About the year 1840 a wave Of scientific enthusiasm resulted in the dispatch Of three national expeditions by France, the United States, and Great Britain; part at least of whose programmes was Antarctic exploration. Russia had previously sent out an expedition which had made notable discoveries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher: Andesite Press
Release Date : 2015-08-09
The Home Of The Blizzard written by Douglas Mawson and has been published by Andesite Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-09 with History categories.
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The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Douglas Mawson, Sir
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013-05-13
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One of the oft-repeated questions for which I usually had a ready answer, at the conclusion of Sir Ernest Shackleton's Expedition (1907-09) was, "Would you like to go to the Antarctic again?" In the first flush of the welcome home and for many months, during which the keen edge of pleasure under civilized conditions had not entirely worn away, I was inclined to reply with a somewhat emphatic negative. But, once more a man in the world of men, lulled in the easy repose of routine, and performing the ordinary duties of a workaday world, old emotions awakened. The grand sweet days returned in irresistible glamour, faraway "voices" called: ...from the wilderness, the vast and Godlike spaces, The stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole. There always seemed to be something at the back of my mind, stored away for future contemplation, and it was an idea which largely matured during my first sojourn in the far South. At times, during the long hours of steady tramping across the trackless snow-fields, one's thoughts flow in a clear and limpid stream, the mind is unruffled and composed and the passion of a great venture springing suddenly before the imagination is sobered by the calmness of pure reason. Perchance this is true of certain moments, but they are rare and fleeting. It may have been in one such phase that I suddenly found myself eager for more than a glimpse of the great span of Antarctic coast lying nearest to Australia.
The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Douglas Mawson
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-05
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Sir Douglas Mawson (1882 - 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The expedition was the subject of David Roberts's book "Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration." In 2011, Ranulph Fiennes included Mawson in his book "My Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People."Mawson chose to lead his own expedition in 1912, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including a visit to the South Magnetic Pole.Mawson wrote of his adventures in his 1915 book "Home of the Blizzards." One cannot read The Home of the Blizzard without entering, perhaps more deeply than ever before, into the true spirit of the lust for exploration-a spirit in which the human craving for excitement mingles with scientific ardor, and with faith.
The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Release Date : 2010
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The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher: Nabu Press
Release Date : 2014-02
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The Home Of The Blizzard
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Author : Douglas Mawson
language : en
Publisher: Skyhorse
Release Date : 2013-03-06
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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.