Antarctic Eyewitness: Charles F. Faseron's South With Mawson and Frank Hurley's Shackleton's Argonauts

by Hurley, Frank; Laseron, Charles F.

• ISBN13: 9780207196171
• ISBN10: 0207196176
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Harpercollins Australia

Summary

Two stories of the 'heroic era', of sustained survival and the triumph of the human spirit set against seemingly impossible odds. One is Sir Douglas Mawson's 1909-14 Australian Antarctic Expedition. The other is Sir Ernest Shackleton's unsuccessful attempt to cross the Antarctic continent from 1914-16, and the extraordinary survival of his entire party after the expedition's ship Endurance was crushed and sunk in pack ice. A timely, superbly chronicled and immensely readable double volume.South With Mawson was published in 1947. Shackleton's Argonauts was published in 1948. Both expeditions were chronicled by Frank Hurley, indomitable Australian photographer

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
Tim Bowden
SOUTH WITH MAWSON	1	(170)
Southwards Bound	5	(9)
Macquarie Island	14	(8)
Polar Seas	22	(14)
Early Days in Adelie Land	36	(13)
The Coming of Winter	49	(13)
Twenty-Four Hours in the Hut	62	(10)
The Passing of Winter	72	(12)
Preparations for Sledging	84	(6)
Four Calm Days	90	(5)
The Coming of the Penguins	95	(9)
Sledging on the Plateau	104	(13)
To the Magnetic Pole	117	(9)
Sledging on the Coast	126	(14)
Last Days in Adelie Land	140	(10)
Homeward Bound	150	(8)
The Toll of the Plateau	158	(13)
Conclusion	167	(4)
SHACKLETON'S ARGONAUTS	171	(4)
The Story of the Pictures	175	(1)
Overture to Adventure	176	(6)
Southward Ho!	182	(9)
`Thar She Blows'	191	(10)
The Sea of Calamity	201	(8)
In the Grip of the Pack-Ice	209	(8)
Sledge-Dog Pals	217	(8)
The Death of the Ship	225	(6)
Adrift on the Sea-Ice	231	(22)
The Escape in the Boats	253	(13)
Land! Land! Land!	266	(6)
Our Life Beneath Two Boats	272	(16)
Epilogue	288