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The Home of the Blizzard

Douglas Mawson

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017-05
主題	Travel / Polar Regions
ISBN	15464129219781546412922
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Nxn2swEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.