Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackelton and Amundsen Tapa blanda - 2012

William Heinemann, Aust, 2014. Paperback. Book Condition: Good. Very clean interior. Creasing cover..

North Sydney, William Heinemann/Random House first edit. - trade paperback, stiff card covers On 2 December 1911 Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia; but two other explorers were engaged in a race to the South Pole. Roald Amundsen and Scott of the Antarctic were en-route. 234 x 155mm., pp. xxvi, 737, b/w plates, maps, notes & references, biblio., index. Trade paperback, stitt pictorial card covers. Contents, no inscriptions; card covers, slight rubbing on corners, no reading creases on spine. NEAR FINE. ISBN: 9781742752792

William Heinemann, Australia, 2012. Softcover. Very Good Condition. History comes to life with Peter FitzSimons in the story of Australia s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton. Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on his way to fulfil a national dream he had first conceived three years earlier, while on his first trip to the frozen continent on the Nimrod expedition under the leadership of the charismatic Anglo-Irishman Sir Ernest Shackleton. Even as Mawson and his men were approaching Antarctica, two other famous Antarctic explorers were already engaged in nothing less than a race to become the first men to reach the South Pole. While Roald Amundsen of… Leer más

Heinemann, Australia, 2012. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback. 737 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Heinemann, Australia, 2012. Reprint. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have light creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. . Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: The story of Australia's most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton. Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on his way to fulfil a national dream he had first conceived three years earlier, while on his first trip to the frozen continent on the Nimrod expedition under the leadership of the charismatic… Leer más

Sydney; William Heinemann; 2012 reprint. paperback in very good condition. 737pp, b/w photos