Mawson, Sir Douglas

The Home of the Blizzard. Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914

Philadelphia J. B. Lippincott Company [1915], 1st American Edition. (Hardcover) xxx,348;xiii,338pp. Very good. In two volumes Quarto. Two photogravure plates (frontispieces), twenty-one coloured plates, B&W plates from photos, illustrations (including maps), and three folding maps in rear pocket (vol. II.). A clean attractive copy. The first US Edition bound from the sheets printed in England. This edition bears some some variation in the illustrations. Rosove 217 A2, variant c. Spence 773. Account of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 led by Douglas Mawson. Shore paries wintered at Cape Denison and on the Shackleton Ice Shelf. The former base was unfortunately located in an area of constant gale-force winds -- hence the title. In December 1912 a sledge party reached the South Magnetic Pole, located by Eric Webb. Meanwhwile another party, consisting of Mawson, Ninnis and Mertz explored eastwards across George V Land. Only Mawson returned to base, Ninnis having fallen down a crevasse and Mertz having died of starvation and compliications. The expedition would discover 1,320 miles of land, including the Mertz, Denman, and Scott Glaciers, and the Davis Sea, and map 800 miles of coastline between Gaussberg and Cape Adare, all along the Adelie Land coast and beyond.

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