This Accursed Land
by Bickel, Lennard
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0725103027
- ISBN 13
- 9780725103026
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About This Item
Sun Books, Sydney, 1992. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 212 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. Mawson's epic and tragic journey across 600 miles of unknown Antarctic wasteland has been described by Sir Edmund Hillary as 'the greatest story of lone survival in Antarctic exploration'. This Accursed Land tells the story of how Mawson declined to join Scott's ill-fated British expedition in order to lead the Australasian party and his three man team which set out to explore the far eastern coastline of the Antarctic continent. The loss of one of his men and most of his supplies turned a hazardous trek into a nightmare. Mawson and his colleague, Mertz, were trapped 320 miles from base with only nine days' food and nothing for the dogs. They lived on the journey back by slaughtering their starving animals and eating what is now known to have been poisoned meat. Mawson's ultimate and lone struggle for survival after Mertz's descent into madness - starving, poisoned, exhausted, and indescribably cold - is one of the most extraordinary stories in the history of exploration. When he arrived back his weight had reduced from fifteen stone to eight stone. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Adventure, Survival, Exploration; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0725103027. ISBN/EAN: 9780725103026. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7607. . 9780725103026
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7607
- Title
- This Accursed Land
- Author
- Bickel, Lennard
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0725103027
- ISBN 13
- 9780725103026
- Publisher
- Sun Books
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- BZDB137 sir douglas mawson, australian, antarctica, south pole, survival, exploration, Adventure, Survival, Exploration; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0725103027 EAN: 9780725103026 Bickel, Lennard This Accursed Land
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