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First edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, a classic account of the heroic age with beatiful colour paintings and superb maps.
First edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, a classic account of the heroic age with beatiful colour paintings and superb maps.
First edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, a classic account of the heroic age with beatiful colour paintings and superb maps.
First edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, a classic account of the heroic age with beatiful colour paintings and superb maps.
First edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, a classic account of the heroic age with beatiful colour paintings and superb maps.
First edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, a classic account of the heroic age with beatiful colour paintings and superb maps.

classic account of 'heroic age' exploits with stunning photography


MAWSON, Sir Douglas.

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

London, William Heinemann, 1915.

$1,373.00
$1,373.00

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First edition of Mawson's classic account of 'heroic age' exploits' with stunning photography (Taurus). Sir Douglas Mawson (1882-1958), a former companion of Shackleton on the Nimrod expedition, visited the almost unexplored regions of King George V Land and Adelie Land, charting about two thousand miles of coastline from 1911 to 1913.

With sales diminished by the ongoing war in Europe, Heinemann soon abridged and republished The Home of the Blizzard in a popular edition. Nonetheless, the first, two-volume edition is 'handsome, and all aspects of the expedition are thoroughly covered', and accompanied by 'beautiful, softly toned, color paintings' and 'superbly prepared' maps (Rosove).

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (25 x 18.5 cm); numerous illustrations and charts in text, photographic frontispiece portraits (captioned on tissue guards) and 218 plates (many with multiple illustrations), of which 9 double-page and 18 printed in colour (each captioned on a tissue guard), 3 large folding maps with printed colour loosely inserted in pocket end vol. II; publisher's original blue cloth gilt, silver pictorial vignettes to upper covers, spines professionally restored, touch of rubbing to extremities, a very good set; xxx, 349; xiii, 338 pp.

Taurus, 100; Rosove, 217.A1.a.

Stock code 116964

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First edition of Mawson's The Home of the Blizzard, a classic account of the heroic age with beatiful colour paintings and superb maps.

The Home of the Blizzard,

$1,373.00
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