Douglas Mawson (1882–1958)
Autore di The Home of the Blizzard: A True Story of Antarctic Survival
Sull'Autore
Sir Douglas Mawson was an Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer born in 1882. In 1909, he was among the first party to reach the Magnetic South Pole as a member of Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition. He manned his own expedition to Antarctica in 1911.
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Opere di Douglas Mawson
The home of the blizzard : being the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 (1915) 25 copie
University of Adelaide, commemoration address 1925: Some aspects of forestry in South Australia, (1925) 2 copie
The Home of the Blizzard : Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Vol. I (1915) 2 copie
The Home of the Blizzard : Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, Vol. II (1915) 2 copie
Leben und Tod am Südpol. 2. Band 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Collaboratore — 125 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Mawson, Douglas
- Data di nascita
- 1882-05-05
- Data di morte
- 1958-10-14
- Luogo di sepoltura
- St. Jude's Church Cemetery, Brighton, South Australia, Australia
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- England, UK (birth)
Australia - Luogo di nascita
- Shipley, Yorkshire, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Brighton, South Australia, Australia
- Luogo di residenza
- Australia
- Istruzione
- Fort Street High School, Sydney, Australia
University of Sydney - Attività lavorative
- Antarctic explorer
geologist
academic - Relazioni
- Delprat, Paquita (spouse)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- OBE
FRS
FAA
Bigsby Medal (1919)
Clarke Medal (1936)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 12
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 291
- Popolarità
- #80,411
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 35
- Lingue
- 1
But elsewhere, among the sometimes boring scientific obs and routine, are passages that make you certain Lovecraft read this:
"We had come to probe its mystery, we had hoped to reduce it to terms of science, but there was always the 'indefinable' which held aloof, yet riveted our souls."
Or:
"Climbing out of the veranda, one was immediately swallowed in the chaos of hurtling drift, the darkness sinister and menacing [...] Unseen wizard hands clutched with insane fury, hacked and harried."
More than half the book is taken up with the non-Mawson, "subsidiary", narratives, of which Grainger's account of his two years on MacQuarie Island is sometimes quite funny, for example when the men are bored enough to mess with the penguins' heads by adding 10 eggs to a nest while a parent is away, or when a new paragraph starts "Blake found a cave..."
Finally I enjoyed the presence of radiocommunications in this book. The various parties take the radio equipment with them, but it's only after a year or so that it starts to work. We feel their excitement and wonder as their isolation begins to melts away with the interchange of dots and dashes. The "heroic age" of Antarctic exploration is ending, but only a masochist would want to go back to it.… (altro)