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Alone on the Ice

David Roberts

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      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’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.
      CONTRIBUTORS: David Roberts EAN: 9780393347784 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 323 g HEIGHT: 211 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: WW Norton & Co DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-03-28 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Polar Regions WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Antarctica, Expeditions: popular accounts

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      David Roberts (1943–2021) is the author of thirty books on mountaineering, exploration, and anthropology. His books have won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition.

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      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’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.
      CONTRIBUTORS: David Roberts EAN: 9780393347784 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 323 g HEIGHT: 211 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: WW Norton & Co DATE PUBLISHED: 2014-03-28 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers, HISTORY / Polar Regions WIDTH: 140 cm SPINE:

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      Antarctica, Expeditions: popular accounts

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      David Roberts (1943–2021) is the author of thirty books on mountaineering, exploration, and anthropology. His books have won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition.

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