The Home of the Blizzard:

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Author

Mawson, Douglas, Sir, 1882-1958

Title

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Credits

Produced by Geoffrey Cowling, and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

G: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Subject

Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914)

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6137

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6137

Release Date

July 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARD:
2. 2.BEING THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALASIAN ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1911-1914; By Sir Douglas Mawson, D.Sc., B.E. ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR AND BLACK AND WHITE ALSO WITH MAPS WITH 260 FULL-PAGE AND SMALLER ILLUSTRATIONS BY DR. E. A. WILSON AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE EXPEDITION, PHOTOGRAVURE FRONTISPIECES, 12 PLATES IN FACSIMILE FROM DR. WILSON'S SKETCHES, PANORAMAS AND MAPS TO THOSE WHO MADE IT POSSIBLE: THE SUBSCRIBERS AND CO-OPERATORS TO THOSE WHO MADE IT A SUCCESS: MY COMRADES AND TO THOSE WHO WAITED
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.AUTHOR'S PREFACE
5. 5.FOREWORD
6. 6.INTRODUCTION
7. 7.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — Sir Douglas Mawson (Photogravure)
8. 8.COLOUR PLATES — Virgin solitudes
9. 9.CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND PREPARATIONS
10. 10.CHAPTER II THE LAST DAYS AT HOBART AND THE VOYAGE TO MACQUARIE ISLAND
11. 11.CHAPTER III FROM MACQUARIE ISLAND TO ADELIE LAND
12. 12.CHAPTER IV NEW LANDS
13. 13.CHAPTER V FIRST DAYS IN ADELIE LAND
14. 14.CHAPTER VI AUTUMN PROSPECTS
15. 15.CHAPTER VII THE BLIZZARD
16. 16.CHAPTER VIII DOMESTIC LIFE
17. 17.CHAPTER IX MIDWINTER AND ITS WORK;
18. 18.CHAPTER X THE PREPARATION OF SLEDGING EQUIPMENT
19. 19.Section through a Nansen Sledging Cooker mounted on the primus
20. 20.CHAPTER XI SPRING EXPLOITS
21. 21.CHAPTER XII ACROSS KING GEORGE V LAND
22. 22.CHAPTER XIII TOIL AND TRIBULATION
23. 23.CHAPTER XIV THE QUEST OF THE SOUTH MAGNETIC POLE — Dr. R. BAGE
24. 24.CHAPTER XV EASTWARD OVER THE SEA-ICE — by C. T. MADIGAN
25. 25.CHAPTER XVI HORN BLUFF AND PENGUIN POINT — by C. T. MADIGAN
26. 26.CHAPTER XVII WITH STILLWELL'S AND BICKERTON'S PARTIES
27. 27.CHAPTER XVIII THE SHIP'S STORY — by Captain J. K. Davis
28. 28.CHAPTER XIX THE WESTERN BASE—ESTABLISHMENT AND EARLY ADVENTURES — by F. Wild
29. 29.CHAPTER XX THE WESTERN BASE—WINTER AND SPRING
30. 30.CHAPTER XXI THE WESTERN BASE—BLOCKED ON THE SHELF-ICE — by F. Wild
31. 31.CHAPTER XXII THE WESTERN BASE—LINKING UP WITH KAISER WILHELM II LAND — by Dr. S. E. Jones
32. 32.CHAPTER XXIII A SECOND WINTER
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIV NEARING THE END
34. 34.CHAPTER XXV LIFE ON MACQUARIE ISLAND — By G. F. Ainsworth
35. 35.CHAPTER XXVI A LAND OF STORM AND MIST — by G. F. Ainsworth
36. 36.CHAPTER XXVII THROUGH ANOTHER YEAR — by G. F. Ainsworth
37. 37.CHAPTER XXVIII THE HOMEWARD CRUISE
38. 38.APPENDIX I
39. 39.ILLUSTRATIONS

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