Flaws in the Ice: In Search of Douglas Mawson
Author(s): David Day
For many decades there has only been one published first-hand account of Mawson's expedition - the one written and orchestrated by Mawson himself. Only recently have alternative accounts become publicly available. In this compelling and revealing new book, David Day draws upon all this new evidence as well as on the vast research he undertook for his international history of Antarctica and on his own experience of sailing the Antarctic coastlist where Mawson's reputation was first created.
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David Day has been a research fellow at Clare College in Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, the University of Aberdeen, and the Centre for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is currently a research associate at La Trobe University in Melbourne. His many books include best-selling histories of the Second World War, biographies of Australian prime ministers, and a study of Winston Churchill and Robert Menzies that has been made into a television documentary. His books have won or been short-listed for several literary prizes, with *Claiming a Continent*, winning the prestigious non-fiction prize at the Adelaide Festival. *Conquest: How Societies Overwhelm Others* has appeared to acclaim in Australia, Britain, and the United States, and has been translated into several languages.
General Fields
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- : Scribe Publications
- : Scribe Publications
- : 0.48
- : 01 October 2013
- : 234mm X 154mm X 26mm
- : Australia
- : 01 November 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Day
- : Paperback
- : 1113
- : English
- : 919.8904092
- : 352