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The author relives Mawson's polar journey of 1912-13 - a hellish journey using the same equipment, clothing and starvation rations as Mawson in an attempt to answer some of the questions surrounding Mawson's tragic expedition in which both his companions died - the limits of human endurance. 240 pages with colour photographs throughout. Book in near fine condition.

Signed by the author. In 1996 Tim Jarvis set out to relive Douglas Mawson's extraordinary polar survival journey of 1912-13. Jarvis undertook the hellish journey using the same equipment, clothing and starvation rations as Mawson had available. The story of two journeys undertaken nearly a century apart, to the limits of human endurance. 239 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout. Book in very good+ condition.

Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2008. 1st edition. As New. small quarto. softback with stiff wrappers 239pp., colour plates, maps, Battling extreme isolation, and close to starvation, Jarvis aims to complete the journey across the south pole in the forty-seven days that it took Mawson. He does it using exactly the same equipment, clothing and food rations available one hundred years ago. Signed by Tim Jarvis on the title-page