Mawson
Subtitle: life and death in Antarctica
By: Tim Jarvis
Series: No. 100 in the 2nd numbered series of the Miegunyah volumes; Miegunyah Press series -- 2nd. ser., no. 100
Publisher: Miegunyah Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Carlton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780522854862
Subjects: Travel; Australians; Historical reenactments; Description and travel; Discovery and exploration; Australian; Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914)
Description: "This book recounts the Antarctic journey undertaken by Tim Jarvis and his colleague Evgeny 'John' Stoukalo. Jarvis set out to renact the journey of survival travelled by Douglas Mawson and Xavier Mertz on the Far Eastern Sledging Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1912, after they had lost the third member of their party, Belgrave Ninnis, in a crevasse fall."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "... number one hundred in the second numbered series of the Miegunyah volumes"--T.p. verso.