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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Thaw
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'Some secrets won’t stay buried.

'‘Scott's lost expedition was still here, she thought – frozen, preserved, waiting to be rescued from the thaw. The truth lay beneath the surface, and she was going to bring it up.’

'In 1912, five British explorers struggle across the freezing Antarctic landscape, through howling winds and plummeting temperatures, seeking the safety of their camp.

'Today, as the world’s ice sheets begin to melt and surrender their secrets, renowned glacial archaeologist Missy Simpson works to discover the true cause of the explorers’ deaths – a subject that has intrigued researchers for more than a century.

'Her colleague, Cambridge professor Jim Hunter, is working on his own scientific mysteries – and is willing to risk everything to solve them.

'In hallowed halls of learning and on the icy polar plateau, these risk-takers must grapple with the unfathomable power of the natural world and the dramatically changing weather – while navigating their own complicated relationships.

'Drawn from the pages of history and cutting-edge science, Thaw is a gripping read that will forever change how you see the frozen continent – and those who seek to conquer it.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2023 .
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      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 1 August 2023

      ISBN: 9781760644451

Other Formats

  • Dyslexic edition.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

[Review] Thaw Clare Rhoden , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 164 2023;

— Review of Thaw Dennis Glover , 2023 single work novel
Dennis Glover Thaw Peter Craven , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 August 2023;

— Review of Thaw Dennis Glover , 2023 single work novel

'Captain Robert Scott’s second doomed expedition to the South Pole is the stuff of legend. He and his comrades were beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen and then died in extraordinary blizzard conditions. The saga is the subject of what’s generally reckoned to be a literary masterpiece – The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard – and its enactment of pain and heroism is central to Patricia Cornelius’s play Do Not Go Gentle, in which the struggle becomes a metaphor for the emotional life of a group of people in an aged-care home.' (Introduction)

'Scott or Shackleton?' Reframing British Antarctic Exploration Morgan Nunan , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 33)

— Review of Thaw Dennis Glover , 2023 single work novel

'Dennis Glover’s third novel centres on the much-mythologised British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–13 that saw Captain Robert Falcon Scott attempt to reach the geographic South Pole for the first time in history. Scott and four companions arrived at the Pole too late (five weeks after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen) and would later succumb to the brutal conditions encountered on their return journey to Cape Evans. As Glover alludes to in the preface (and dramatises throughout the novel), details of the Scott expedition – possible causes of the tragedy, potential alternatives – as well as its historical, cultural, and/or scientific significance, have long been the subject of voluminous print and broadcast media (both popular and academic) and have fuelled often obsessive and granular debates. Thaw is both a contribution to, and comment on, this discourse.' (Introduction)

'Scott or Shackleton?' Reframing British Antarctic Exploration Morgan Nunan , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 33)

— Review of Thaw Dennis Glover , 2023 single work novel

'Dennis Glover’s third novel centres on the much-mythologised British Antarctic Expedition of 1910–13 that saw Captain Robert Falcon Scott attempt to reach the geographic South Pole for the first time in history. Scott and four companions arrived at the Pole too late (five weeks after Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen) and would later succumb to the brutal conditions encountered on their return journey to Cape Evans. As Glover alludes to in the preface (and dramatises throughout the novel), details of the Scott expedition – possible causes of the tragedy, potential alternatives – as well as its historical, cultural, and/or scientific significance, have long been the subject of voluminous print and broadcast media (both popular and academic) and have fuelled often obsessive and granular debates. Thaw is both a contribution to, and comment on, this discourse.' (Introduction)

Dennis Glover Thaw Peter Craven , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 12-18 August 2023;

— Review of Thaw Dennis Glover , 2023 single work novel

'Captain Robert Scott’s second doomed expedition to the South Pole is the stuff of legend. He and his comrades were beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen and then died in extraordinary blizzard conditions. The saga is the subject of what’s generally reckoned to be a literary masterpiece – The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard – and its enactment of pain and heroism is central to Patricia Cornelius’s play Do Not Go Gentle, in which the struggle becomes a metaphor for the emotional life of a group of people in an aged-care home.' (Introduction)

[Review] Thaw Clare Rhoden , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 164 2023;

— Review of Thaw Dennis Glover , 2023 single work novel
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