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    Category Antarctic;
    Author Douglas Mawson, (Sir)
    Title THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD. Being the Story of the Australasian Expedition, 1911-1914. 1 Volume Edition
    Publishing Information London: Hodder and Stourton Limited, 1938.
    Description 6th Edition (1st in this form); xix, 348 pages, 10 maps and plans. Original covers, no dust jacket. Shelf wear, covers stained, some minor spotting, mainly to page edges, contents clean. A neat concise volume of this expedition. A participant in Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition (1907-09), Mawson went on to lead his own expedition from his native Australia to an area of the Antarctic previously unexplored, departing in December 1911. At the end of 1912 disaster struck when one member of his three-man sub-team fell into a crevasse with most of their sled dogs and supplies. Mawson and Xavier Mertz began the 480km trek back to base, but Mertz fell victim to vitamin A poisoning from the dog's livers they were forced to eat, and died before they reached their goal. In this book Mawson records his extraordinary survival experiences.
    Price £20.00
    Keywords Shackleton, polar, Scott, qpolarq S1-Ant
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