Product Description

It is 1912, the age of Antarctic exploration. Scott's journey has ended. Mawson's is just beginning. This book transports us to the last days of those expeditions in the white continent. Sweeping through deaths and disasters, this book lays bare the forces that drove these explorers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1749589 in Books
• Published on: 2001-05-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
"'This imagined recreation of the two most unforgettable Antarctic disasters tells brutal stories, but manages to do so with great tenderness and grace. Adrian Caesar's literary high-wire act works wonderfully well, adding a vivid humanity to landscapes scattered only with stiffly-written memoirs and black, ice-cold memorials.' - Simon Winchester"

About the Author
Adrian Caesar was born near Manchester, and has lived in Australia since 1982. He is Associate Professor of English at the University College of NSW, Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of several books of literary and cultural criticism and two books of poems.