The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD:
BEING THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1911-1914; By Sir Douglas Mawson, D.Sc., B.E. ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE ALSO WITH MAPS WITH 260 FULL-PAGE AND SMALLER ILLUSTRATIONS BY DR. E. A. WILSON AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION, PHOTOGRAVURE FRONTISPIECES, 12 PLATES IN FACSIMILE FROM DR. WILSON'S SKETCHES, PANORAMAS AND MAPS TO THOSE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE: THE SUBSCRIBERS AND CO-OPERATORS TO THOSE WHO MADE IT A SUCCESS: MY COMRADES AND TO THOSE WHO WAITED
TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Sir Douglas Mawson (Photogravure)
COLOUR PLATES
Virgin solitudes
CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND PREPARATIONS
CHAPTER II THE LAST DAYS AT HOBART AND THE VOYAGE TO MACQUARIE ISLAND
CHAPTER III FROM MACQUARIE ISLAND TO ADELIE LAND
CHAPTER IV NEW LANDS
CHAPTER V FIRST DAYS IN ADELIE LAND
CHAPTER VI AUTUMN PROSPECTS
CHAPTER VII THE BLIZZARD
CHAPTER VIII DOMESTIC LIFE
CHAPTER IX MIDWINTER AND ITS WORK;
CHAPTER X THE PREPARATION OF SLEDGING EQUIPMENT
Section through a Nansen Sledging Cooker mounted on the primus
CHAPTER XI SPRING EXPLOITS
CHAPTER XII ACROSS KING GEORGE V LAND
CHAPTER XIII TOIL AND TRIBULATION
CHAPTER XIV THE QUEST OF THE SOUTH MAGNETIC POLE
Dr. R. BAGE
CHAPTER XV EASTWARD OVER THE SEA-ICE
CHAPTER XVI HORN BLUFF AND PENGUIN POINT
CHAPTER XVII WITH STILLWELL'S AND BICKERTON'S PARTIES
CHAPTER XVIII THE SHIP'S STORY
CHAPTER XIX THE WESTERN BASE—ESTABLISHMENT AND EARLY ADVENTURES
CHAPTER XX THE WESTERN BASE—WINTER AND SPRING
CHAPTER XXI THE WESTERN BASE—BLOCKED ON THE SHELF-ICE
CHAPTER XXII THE WESTERN BASE—LINKING UP WITH KAISER WILHELM II LAND
CHAPTER XXIII A SECOND WINTER
CHAPTER XXIV NEARING THE END
CHAPTER XXV LIFE ON MACQUARIE ISLAND
CHAPTER XXVI A LAND OF STORM AND MIST
CHAPTER XXVII THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR
CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOMEWARD CRUISE
APPENDIX I
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