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Racing with Death

Paperback • 2009 • English

Racing with Death

By Beau Riffenburgh

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About the book

Scott, Shackleton and Mawson were the three great explorers of the Edwardian age. Now Beau Riffenburgh tells the forgotten story of Douglas Mawson and his death-defying expedition of 1911-14. A key member of Ernest Shackleton's famous Nimrod Expedition, Mawson led his own Australasian Antarctic Expedition. However, following the tragic deaths of the other members of his sledging party, he was left to struggle the hundreds of miles back to base alone, only to find that the relief ship had sailed ...Show more

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ISBN

9780747596714

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2009

Language

English

Original title

Racing with Death

Format

Paperback

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