Issue Details: First known date: 1915... 1915 The Home of the Blizzard : The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
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'The Home of the Blizzard is a tale of discovery and adventure, of pioneering deeds, great courage, heart-stopping rescues and heroic endurance. This is Mawson's own account of his years spent in sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds. At its heart is the epic journey of 1912-13, during which both his companions perished. Told in a laconic but gripping style, this is the classic account of the struggle for survival of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition - a journey which mapped more of Antarctica than any expedition before or since. 

'The photographs included in this book were taken on the journey by Frank Hurley, later to achieve fame on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition. ' 

  (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Heinemann ,
      1915 .
      Extent: 2 v.p.
      Description: illus., maps
      Note/s:
      • Folded maps in pocket at end of vol. II.
Alternative title: The Home of the Blizzard : An Australian Hero's Classic Tale of Antarctic Discovery and Adventure
    • Kent Town, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia,: Wakefield Press , 2010 .
      image of person or book cover 2921053253771725381.jpg
      This image has been sourced from online.
      Extent: xxiii, 438 p., [64] p. of platesp.
      Description: ill., maps, plans, ports
      Note/s:
      • Foreword by Ranulph Fiennes
      ISBN: 9781862548763 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Douglas Mawson and the Nation of Science John Scheckter , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;

'In the early decades of the twentieth century, a nation’s participation in global communities of science denoted high degrees of cultural modernity. For Australia, the accomplishments of Douglas Mawson signified that national assertion. Unlike the arts, where lines of descent and influence remained important, scientists before 1914 frequently saw themselves without borders; this claim offered vast encouragement to newer societies, who found their champion in Ernest Rutherford, born in New Zealand and awarded the Nobel in 1908 for work in Canada. Australia – the new Federation and the progressive states – heartily grasped the opportunity, and Mawson personified that demonstration, particularly in Antarctica: in calling him ‘an Australian Nansen,’ Edgeworth David drew a sharp distinction between Mawson and his British compeers, Scott and Shackleton. Both Mawson and Nansen were field scientists of utmost rigor, who directed their celebrity toward public activism on behalf of a new nation (Australia, 1901; Norway, 1905). That newness, moreover, produced a modernity that Gyan Prakash calls ‘an uncanny double, not a copy, of the European original’ (Another Reason 5); thus, while Mawson represented modern science in Australia, he also worked, consciously and originally, to reconfigure the global playing field of modernity altogether.' (Publication abstract)

Penguins on Horseback Emma McEwin , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 352 2013;
Antarctic Soup : The Cold Worlds of Mawson and Stillwell Bernadette Hince , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , April vol. 21 no. 1 2012; (p. 3)
The Home of the Blizzard 1930 single work review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 November no. 6 1930; (p. 25-26)

— Review of The Home of the Blizzard : The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson , 1915 single work prose
The Home of the Blizzard 1930 single work review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 November no. 6 1930; (p. 25-26)

— Review of The Home of the Blizzard : The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson , 1915 single work prose
Penguins on Horseback Emma McEwin , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 352 2013;
Antarctic Soup : The Cold Worlds of Mawson and Stillwell Bernadette Hince , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: Ozwords , April vol. 21 no. 1 2012; (p. 3)
Douglas Mawson and the Nation of Science John Scheckter , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;

'In the early decades of the twentieth century, a nation’s participation in global communities of science denoted high degrees of cultural modernity. For Australia, the accomplishments of Douglas Mawson signified that national assertion. Unlike the arts, where lines of descent and influence remained important, scientists before 1914 frequently saw themselves without borders; this claim offered vast encouragement to newer societies, who found their champion in Ernest Rutherford, born in New Zealand and awarded the Nobel in 1908 for work in Canada. Australia – the new Federation and the progressive states – heartily grasped the opportunity, and Mawson personified that demonstration, particularly in Antarctica: in calling him ‘an Australian Nansen,’ Edgeworth David drew a sharp distinction between Mawson and his British compeers, Scott and Shackleton. Both Mawson and Nansen were field scientists of utmost rigor, who directed their celebrity toward public activism on behalf of a new nation (Australia, 1901; Norway, 1905). That newness, moreover, produced a modernity that Gyan Prakash calls ‘an uncanny double, not a copy, of the European original’ (Another Reason 5); thus, while Mawson represented modern science in Australia, he also worked, consciously and originally, to reconfigure the global playing field of modernity altogether.' (Publication abstract)

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