Antarctic
Hobart is only a boat-trip away from Antarctica (and on winter mornings you can tell!), and we have a good collection of pictorial, educational, and narrative books about our polar neighbour.
Mawson and the Ice Men of the Heroic Age
Peter FitzSimons
Random House Australia
Hardback
2011
Price $AU 49.95
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Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, was Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer.
On 2 December, 1911, he led an expedition from Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. FitzSimons tells the staggering tale of what went wrong and how Mawson survived, despite all the odds, arriving back just in time to see his rescue ship disappearing over the horizon. He also masterfully interweaves the stories of the other giants from the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration - Scott of the Antarctic, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen - to bring the jaw-dropping events of this bygone era dazzlingly back to life.
No Return: Captain Scott's Race to the Pole
Peter Gouldthorpe
Jacana
Hardback
2011
Price $AU 28.99
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Peter Gouldthorpe lives in Tasmania, and is recognised as one of Australia's most versatile and skillful illustrators.
In the age of discovery, Antarctica remained an unknown quantity amongst the world's scientists and explorers. Robert Falcon Scott was amongst the pioneers who penetrated the ice and cruel weather. This is the story of his journey from England culminating in the ill-fated final march to his goal, only to be beaten by the Norwegians and to suffer terrible loss - and death.
One Small Island
Coral Tulloch and Alison Lester
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