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Author: Mawson, Sir Douglas
Title: The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Place Published: London
Publisher:Heinemann
Date Published: [1915]
Description:

2 volumes. xxx, 349; xiii, 338, [1] pp. Errata sheet bound in after introduction. Illustrated with numerous plates from photographs (18 in color) including frontispieces plus 3 folding maps loose at rear of Vol. II. (Large 8vo) 24.3x17 cm (9½x6¾"), original dark blue cloth lettered in copper gilt, vignette stamped in silver gilt. First British Edition, 1st Printing.

Mawson "organized and led the noted Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. Sailing in the Aurora (Captain J.K. Davis) Mawson left a wireless station at Macquarie Island under G.F. Ainsworth and in the continent established his own main base at Cape Denison in what was later to become George V Land... Davis and the land parties explored nearly 2,000 miles of coastline while sledge parties traversed some 4,000 miles in the coast lands and hinterlands gaining scientific information of great value..." - DNB. Spence 773.

Touches of wear to cloth, some rubbing along joints and ends of spines, lettering on spine flaked and faded, Vol. 1 leaning slightly; hinges tender, rear hinge of Vol. 2 cracked, occasional foxing, text clean throughout, maps show some creasing, King George V land map has 1" tear along lower fold, no loss; very good.