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| #3433966 in Books | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 2008-08-18 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 1.18 x9.53 x6.30l, | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Unbelievable Combo of Fortitude and Good Luck!|By Ronno|I am Australian so I have a greater appreciation that his explorations laid rights to a territorial claim of land and water as extensive as the Australian continent itself. Hillary states that his exploration was the most dramatic and harrowing in history. A fine read. Like many heroes, his later years deteriorate||PRAISE FOR 'NIMROD' 'A masterful balance of true drama and first-rate scholarship. The narrative moves with the speed of a novel, while the author's unerring eye for historical detail captures the essence of polar exploration and explorers and locates Shackle
The early twentieth century was the 'heroic age' of Antarctic exploration - a time when adventurers such as Scott and Shackleton were national icons who personified the contemporary ideal of manly struggle for the good of Empire. But, while these two are world famous to this day, Australian Douglas Mawson, whose Australasian Antarctic Expedition, undertaken in 1911 after Mawson had been a key member of Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, Dr Edmund Hillary described as 'the g...
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