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

4.0

Douglas Mawson is one of the unsung heroes of Antarctic exploration. He's not one of the big three, so his story isn't as famous as those of Scott, Amundsen, and Shackleton, which is a shame, because it's a gripping tale of survival in the face of unimaginable conditions. The author relies a bit too much on really long quotations from various polar memoirs (especially Mawson's), but it's an amazing story, well told.