THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD: BEING THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1911-1914
Written by Douglas Mawson
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
in 1930
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- AUSTRALIA
- ANTARCTIC
- POLAR
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Front cover
Contents
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER
- I. PLAN AND PREPARATION
- II. THE VOYAGE TO MACQUARIE ISLAND
- III. FROM MACQUARIE ISLAND TO ADELIE LAND
- IV. NEWLANDS
- V. FIRST DAYS IN ADELIE LAND
- VI. AUTUMN PROSPECTS
- VII. THE BLIZZARD
- VIII. TROGLODYTES
- IX. DOMESTIC LIFE
- X. WINTER ACTIVITIES
- XI. SPRING EXPLOITS
- XII. ACROSS KING GEORGE LAND
- XIII. TOIL AND TRIBULATION
- XIV. ALONE
- XV. SOUTHWARD OVER THE PLATEAU (From Bage's Narrative)
- XVI. EASTWARD OVER THE SEA-ICE (From Madigan's Narrative)
- XVII. ACROSS ADELIE LAND - TO EAST AND WEST (from Stillwell's and Bickerton's Reports)
- XVIII. THE SHIP'S STORY (From Captain Davis's Narrative)
- XIX. A HOME ON THE FLOATING PACK-ICE (Frank Wild's Narrative)
- XX. WINTER AND SPRING IN QUEEN MARY LAND (Frank Wild's Narrative)
- XXI. BLOCKED ON THE SHELF-ICE (Frank Wild's Narrative)
- XXII. LINKING UP WITH KAISER WILHELM LAND (From Dr. SE Jones's Narrative)
- XXIII. THE SECOND YEAR
- XXIV. LIFE ON MACQUARIE ISLAND (George F. Ainsworth Narrative)
- XXV. A LAND OF STORM AND MIST (George F. Ainsworth Narrative)
- XXVI. SHORT COMMONS (George F. Ainsworth Narrative)
- XXVII. THE HOMEWARD CRUISE
- APPENDIX I. THE STAFF
- APPENDIX II. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- APPENDIX III. GLOSSARY
- INDEX