Mawson
And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen
$27.71
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2014
Summary
History comes to life with Peter FitzSimons in the story of Australia’s most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration—Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton.
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Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which ha…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857987204 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857987208 |
| Author: | Peter FitzSimons |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 550g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 49mm |
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About The Author
Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons is a journalist with the Sydney Morning Herald and Sun-Herald, and a busy events and motivational speaker. He is the author of over twenty-seven books, including Tobruk, Kokoda, Batavia, Eureka, Ned Kelly, Gallipoli and biographies of Douglas Mawson, Nancy Wake, Kim Beazley, Nick Farr-Jones, Les Darcy, Steve Waugh and John Eales, and is one of Australia’s biggest selling non-fiction authors of the last fifteen years.
Peter was named a Member of the Order of Australia for service to literature as a biographer, sports journalist and commentator, and to the community through contributions to conservation, disability care, social welfare and sporting organisations. He lives with his wife, Lisa Wilkinson, and their three children in Sydney. His forthcoming book is Fromelles and Pozieres- In the Trenches of Hell.
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