Racing with Death - Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer

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  • Author: Beau Riffenburgh
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
  • Catalogue: 180506
  • Size: 13x20cm
Racing with Death - Douglas Mawson Antarctic Explorer is Beau Riffenburgh’s biography of the little known Australian polar explorer from the golden age of Antarctic exploration. Mawson’s story is one of true heroism and a fascinating insight into the human psyche under extreme stress.

Mawson was a key member of Shackleton’s Nimrod expedition, but then led his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition between 1911 and 1914. A scientifically successful expedition, Mawson’s own sledging party was ripped apart by tragedy, leaving him to struggle the solitary hundreds of miles back to base alone, only to find that the relief ship had sailed away. He later led a ground-breaking two-year expedition which explored hundreds of miles of unknown Antarctic coastline.