| Description |
xiii, 316 pages, 16 unnumberd pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps, portraits ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Summary |
In Flaws in the Ice, prize-winning historian David Day takes off on a five-week odyssey in search of the real Douglas Mawson. Beginning his book on board an expedition ship bound for the Antarctic, Dr Day asks the difficult questions that have hitherto lain buried about Mawson -- his intimate relationship with Lady Scott, his leadership of the ill-fated Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14, and his conduct during the trek that led to the death of his two companions. He also explores the ways in which Mawson subsequently concealed his failures and deficiencies as an explorer, and created for himself a heroic image that has persisted for a century |
| Analysis |
Antarctic Region |
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Biography |
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Discovery and exploration |
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History |
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Mawson, Douglas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mawson, Douglas, 1882-1958.
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| SUBJECT |
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073914
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| Subject |
Explorers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Explorers -- Australia.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Discovery and exploration.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114308
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Antarctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005493 -- Australian
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2013481872 |
| ISBN |
9781922070746 (paperback) |
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