By SIR DOUGLAS MAWSON. Two volumes. 315 remarkable photographs. 16
colored plates, drawings, plans, maps, etc. 8vo. $9.00 net.
Have you heard Sir Douglas lecture? If you have, you will want to read
this book that you may become better acquainted with his charming
personality, and to preserve in the three hundred and fifteen superb
illustrations with the glittering text, a permanent record of the
greatest battle that has ever been waged against the wind, the snow, the
crevice ice and the prolonged darkness of over two years in Antarctic
lands.
It has been estimated by critics as the most interesting and the greatest
account of Polar Exploration. For instance, the London Athenæum, an
authority, said: "No polar book ever written has surpassed these volumes
in sustained interest or in the variety of the subject matter." It is
indeed a tale of pluck, heroism and infinite endurance that comes as a
relief in the face of accounts of the same qualities sacrificed in Europe
for a cause so less worthy.
To understand "courage" you must read the author's account of his
terrific struggle alone in the blizzard,--an eighty-mile fight in a
hurricane snow with his two companions left dead behind him.
The wild life in the southern seas is multitudinous; whole armies of
dignified penguins were caught with the camera; bluff old sea-lions and
many a strange bird of this new continent were so tame that they could be
easily approached. For the first time actual colored photographs bring to
us the flaming lights of the untrodden land. They are unsurpassed in any
other work.
These volumes will be a great addition to your library; whether large or
small, literary or scientific, they are an inspiration, a delight to
read.