Mawson's Will: The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
by Lennard Bickel
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Author: Lennard BickelForeword: Sir Edmund Hillary
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-04
ISBN: 1586420003
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Steerforth
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Summary: 5 Stars
Douglas Mawson chose not to join the race for the South Pole with the ill-fated Scott. Instead of ego aggrandisement, Mawson chose science and set out on a smaller geologic expedition of another area of the frozen South. An experienced polar explorer, Mawson began with a party of two others, but eventually the group of three was reduced to the indefatigible Mawson alone. Bickel's rendition of Mawson's solitary struggle is based on Mawson's own journals of a story that deserves a place ahead of all the accounts of Scott and Shakleton. Bickel captures well the character of the man and, even more, the psychological terrors to which Mawson refused to succumb as he battled the physical obstacles. More than twenty years after this reviewer's first reading, Mawson's Will stands as a premier account of an individual's determination to survive.
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