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S'està carregant… Mawson: And the Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen. (2011)de Peter FitzSimons
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 1   SunUp | Sep 26, 2014 |   The title is misleading. I think it was the publisher’s attempt to carve out a niche in a period of exploration that is well documented. However, the book does make a compelling case that Mawson was the equal of Scott and Shackleton. Unfortunately, while referencing the scientific work that Mawson brought back from Antarctica, the reader is never given a detailed account of his research - but I guess that’s the author’s style. FitzSimons’ excels when writing accounts of heroism, bravery and character. (  ) kenno82 | Mar 30, 2012 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
The story of Australia's most famous polar explorer and the giants from the heroic age of polar exploration- Scott, Amundsen and Shackleton. Sir Douglas Mawson, born in 1882 and knighted in 1914, remains Australia's greatest Antarctic explorer. On 2 December 1911, his Australasian Antarctic Expedition left Hobart to explore the virgin frozen coastline below Australia, 2000 miles of which had never felt the tread of a human foot. He was on his way to fulfil a national dream he had first conceived three years earlier, while on his first trip to the frozen continent on the Nimrod expedition under the leadership of the charismatic Anglo-Irishman Sir Ernest Shackleton. Even as Mawson and his men were approaching Antarctica, two other famous Antarctic explorers were already engaged in nothing less than a race to become the first men to reach the South Pole. While Roald Amundsen of Norway, with his small team, was racing with dogs along one route, England's legendary Scott of the Antarctic, with his far larger team, was relying primarily on ponies and 'man-hauling' to get there along another. As Mawson and his men make their home on the windiest place on earth and prepare for their own record-breaking treks, with devastating drama to be their constant companion, the stories of Amundsen and Scott similarly play out. With his trademark in-depth research, FitzSimons provides a compelling portrait of these great Antarctic explorers. For the first time, he weaves together their legendary feats into one thrilling account, bringing the jaw-dropping events of this bygone era dazzlingly back to life. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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The subject matter is compelling on its own and was enough to get me through this astonishingly large volume (perhaps it's the edition I have, but this thing is huge). It's a poorly chosen title, however, as I didn't feel Mawson was the central figure as it implies. Rather, he was one of a group of extraordinarily courageous men who explored the Antarctic.
FitzSimons' writing, however, is intensely irritating. His frequent interjections of "don't you know" and "old chap" are distracting to say the least. I presume it's meant to be jolly, and friendly maybe, a way of pulling the reader in to the way people spoke in those days, but it comes off (to me) as being disrespectful mimicry. This is serious stuff, not to be mocked in any way, and clearly I missed whatever point the author was trying to make by doing this.
Short version: fascinating story, but the author's personality got in the way of it for me. (