Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

摘要: On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by harness. A line poetry gave him will haul surface. sometimes reduced crawling, one night he discovered that soles his feet had completely detached from flesh beneath. February 8, when staggered base, features unrecognizably skeletal, first teammate reach blurted out, "Which are you?" This thrilling almost unbelievable account establishes in rightful place as greatest polar explorers expedition leaders. It is illustrated trove Frank Hurley's famous photographs, many never before published United States.