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

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

David Roberts

368 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous slow-paced

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“An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”—Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep SurvivalOn January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sle...

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