Description

• A handsome copy of Sir Douglas Mawson’s famous account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14
• Over 100 illustrations & in-text diagrams [mainly Frank Hurley photographs but also maps, sketches & plans] plus three folding maps [fine condition]

The illustrations in this volume… are many of them new and never before published giving to this edition a special interest – Mawson’s Preface

• First Popular Edition [Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1930]; xxxii, 438, [2 blank] pages; patterned blue cloth, gold titling to spine, gently rubbed & bumped at extremities, bookseller sticker inside front board, page block lightly foxed, a near-fine copy; no dustjacket