Research Blog Antarctica #10
April 22, 2006
Non-fiction: Douglas Mawson: the Home of the Blizzard (the 1930 abridged edition)
Douglas Mawson is the least known of the larger-than-life era of Antarctic exploration. A contemporary of Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton, he’s the scientists’ explorer. While Shackleton was the great leader, Amundsen the great sportsman, and Scott the great bungler, Mawson was the great scientist. [...]