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Racing with Death - Beau Riffenburgh

Racing with Death

Douglas Mawson - Antarctic Explorer
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2009
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-0-7475-9671-4 (ISBN)
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In Racing with Death, Beau Riffenburgh redisovers the almost forgotten story of Mawson - with Shackleton and Scott, one of the three 'greats' of Antarctic exploration. It is a breathtaking story of raw courage and escape from the very jaws of death.
Scott, Shackleton and Mawson were the three great explorers of the Edwardian age. Now Beau Riffenburgh tells the forgotten story of Douglas Mawson and his death-defying expedition of 1911-14. A key member of Ernest Shackleton's famous Nimrod Expedition, Mawson led his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition. However, following the tragic deaths of the other members of his sledging party, he was left to struggle the hundreds of miles back to base alone, only to find that the relief ship had sailed away, leaving him to face another year in Antarctica. Having survived with a small band of men against incredible odds, he later led a groundbreaking two-year expedition which explored hundreds of miles of unknown coastline. Mawson's is a story of true heroism and a fascinating insight into the human psyche under extreme duress.

Beau Riffenburgh is an historian specialising in exploration, particularly that of the Antarctic, Arctic, and Africa. Born in California, he earned his doctorate at Cambridge University, following which he joined the staff at the Scott Polar Research Institute, where he served for 14 years as the editor of Polar Record. He is the author of the highly regarded Nimrod: Ernest Shackleton and the Extraordinary Story of the 1907-09 British Antarctic Expedition and The Myth of the Explorer. He also served as Editor of the Encyclopedia of the Antarctic.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.8.2009
Zusatzinfo Illustrations, maps, ports.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Einbandart Paperback
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Reisen Reiseberichte Welt / Arktis / Antarktis
ISBN-10 0-7475-9671-9 / 0747596719
ISBN-13 978-0-7475-9671-4 / 9780747596714
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