His two companions dead, food and supplies vanished in a crevasse, Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.
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.
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Sexual Content - 0/5
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Violence - 4/5
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Language - 1/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - 0/5
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Summary
Overall This is the story of Douglas Mawson, an Antartica explorer. The book tells a great story but is lengthy and detailed. It also breaks off and tells the stories of other Antartica explorers. It was a hard read but if you like survival stories, you may like this one.
Violence I'm rating this a 4 because it is graphic in description of having to kill and eat dogs to avoid starvation. It was somewhat disturbing to me. It also details the
injuries some of the explorers suffered, which were also disturbing.