Mawson
A Life
$71.45
- Paperback
392 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2003
Summary
A biography covering the full range of Sir Douglas Mawson’s life and work, his character and attainments, his virtues and faults, his place in the past and his significance for the present.
Sir Douglas Mawson was Australia’s pre-eminent Antarctic explorer, a tall, quiet scientist who survived several gruelling polar expeditions, and went on to play a notable role in the academic and research establishment.
He is most famed for an ill-fated expedition in 1913, in which he trekk…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522850789 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522850782 |
| Author: | Philip Ayres |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2003 |
| Weight: | 528g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 156mm x 33mm |
| Series: | Miegunyah Press S. |
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Critics Review
“In this definitive biography … Ayres reveals a man whose passions extended far beyond the frozen continent that made him famous.” – Sunday Times
“By unearthing a massive amount of new material, using thousands of previously unpublished personal letters and expeditioners’ diary notes, Ayres manages to chip away the ice to reveal the man inside the well-known image of a knight in woolen armor.” –The Age
“In this definitive biography … Ayres reveals a man whose passions extended far beyond the frozen continent that made him famous.” –Sunday Times
About The Author
Philip Ayres
Philip Ayres has been described as “one of the greatest biographers Australia has produced” (Dyson Heydon, in a review of Fortunate Voyager). He is the author of Owen Dixon, of Malcolm Fraser, of Mawson (still the only whole-of-life biography of its subject aside from Lady Mawson’s), of Prince of the Church (on Cardinal Moran, the first Australian cardinal), of Fortunate Voyager: The World of Ninian Stephen and of numerous scholarly books and articles on English eighteenth-century culture including Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth Century England. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society of London and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a recipient of the Centenary Medal for contributions to literature.
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