Mawson's will
by Lennard Bickel · first published 1977
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An account of Sir Douglas Mawson's explorations of and discoveries in Antarctica and of his remarkable survival, in 1912, of a solitary trudge through snow, wind, and bitter cold without food or drink.
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…one, also I really enjoyed Endurance by Alfred Lansing, also about Shackleton's expedition. Fiennes' also wrote a good book about Amundsen and Scott, Race to the Pole. I've heard good things about "Mawson's Will" by Lennard Bickel. (I tend to focus on Antarctica due to its proximity and the historical connections to Antarctic exploration in my area)
on “Endurance: Shackleton's lost ship is found in Antarctic” ↗…multiple readings but not all. I retain a surprising amount of details and can describe passages from Dickens and the main argument of David Cay Johnson's "Perfectly Legal" or the amazing survival story of "Mawson's Will" or an amusing passage in Ernest Hemingway's journalism story "A Free Shave" or the images of the amputation tent in Tolstoy's "The Sebaastopol Sketches--to name a tiny few. Once your reading is not…
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