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Very Good. 2 Volumes. xxx, 349p; xiii, 338p.; frontises, 110 pl, 3 maps. First American edition. Bound in publishers blue cloth. Silver lettering to spine and front cover. TEG. Good bindings and covers. Minimal wear to extremities. Owners stamp to FEP corner. Vol. I front hinge weakened. Clean, unmarked pages. Conrad, p 208; Renard 1021; Rosove 217. A1. a; Spence 774. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Leading the renowned Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, scientist and explorer Sir Douglas Mawson, 1882-1958, proved himself a true hero. While Mawson set up a main base in what would become George V Land, his team explored nearly 2000 miles of coastline while sledge parties traversed some 4000 miles in the coastlands and hinterlands gaining scientific information of great value. In George V Land the explorers encountered one of the most stormy and crevasse-imperiled regions of the world; on one inland sledging expedition Mawson lost both his companions, and only survived himself by the exercise of iron determination, superb physique, and the unfailing courage evident in all his expeditions. Mawson's reports on geography, oceanography, glaciology, biology, terrestrial magnetism, and other scientific subjects proved of major importance.