This Accursed Land
Sydney: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1977. Tall octavo, turquoise hardcover, embossed on spine with silver lettering, [x], 210 pp., endpapers illustrated with maps, six double-sided black-and-white plates. Corners a little bumped, edge of dust-jacket a little worn; otherwise a near-fine copy. First edition. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hilary. Australian writer Lennard Bickel recounts the dramatic tale of Douglas Mawson's ill-fated expedition into the unknown Antarctic area west of Cape Adare. After losing his two companions in tragic circumstances, Mawson's epic journey turned into a harrowing quest of lone survival. Item #4696
Price (AUD): $35.00
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