The Last Antarctic Heroes

Lennard Bickel

Allen& Unwin

In Shackleton's Forgotten Men Lennard Bickel honours the memory of a group of men who carried out some of the most heroic and devoted journeys ever made in the Antarctic. This is the stirring account of the little-known, tragic expedition launched by Ernest Shackleton in 1915 to provide support for his own Antarctic expedition that would follow.These journeys were made to set up depots across the Great Ice Shelf to supply the coming Shackleton expedition: a crossing of the Antarctic continent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea. But the group lost their ship and supplies when a fierce polar gale ripped the ship from its moorings, and had to haul sledges almost 2000 miles across the hostile interior of the Antarctic. Despite enduring unimaginable deprivation, from bad weather to disease and madness, this heroic band accomplished their mission, laying the way for Shackleton and his men. But Shackleton and his men never came and the drama of their own disastrous journey has until now overshadowed the extraordinary story of those brave men who came before them. Lennard Bickel tells the story of these forgotten heroes in a gripping account, drawing largely from interviews with one team member, Dick Richards, and from the diary of another. This new account underscores the capacity of ordinary men for tragedy, endurance and noble action.

Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy

Sports & Outdoors

Random House]

This Accursed Land

Travel

Travel Writing

Sun Books

This accursed land

Macmillan

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

Mawson's Will: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written

Science & Math

Research

UNKNO

Dust jacket "For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced the most blistering wind, snow, cold ever known to man; loss of his companion, dogs, and supplies; thirst, starvation, disease, snowblindness - and he survived. Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls 'the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history.' Sir Douglas Mawson is remembered as the young Australian who would not go with Robert Scott in 1911 to the South Pole. In 1908, Mawson had led an important expedition to the South Magnetic Pole, but even before that, he had seen the Transantarctic Mountains on the horizon and dreamed of walking there. In 1912, after a winter at his Cape Denison base camp, Mawson sent out small groups to chart nearly 1,500 miles of coastline and claim the resources for the British crown. His own party of three set out through the mountains across crevasse-filled glaciers in 60 mph winds. Six weeks and 320 miles out, one man fell into a crevasse, along with the tent, most equipment, all dog food, and all except a week's supply of the men's food. Mawson had hoped to find the sea frozen and return quickly to base camp; it was not. So the two men trudged back across the glaciers, eating the dogs. Three weeks later, Mawson had to go on alone. Mawson's Will is the unforgettable story of how his ingenious practicality and drive led him to struggle on and how he continued his meticulous scientific observations to the end. When the expedition was over, Mawson had added more territory to the Antarctic map than anyone else of his time...."

Mawson's Mill: the Greatest Survival Story Ever Written

Dorset_Press

This Accursed Land: An epic solo journey across Antarctica

Canelo History

This Accursed Land. Douglas Mawson's Incredible Antarctic Journey

Woodslane Press

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