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Alone on the Ice

The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration

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Alone on the Ice

Auteur(s): David Roberts
Narrateur(s): Matthew Brenher
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His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still 100 miles from camp.

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface.

Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, “Which one are you?”

This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders.

©2013 David Roberts (P)2013 Blackstone Essais et carnets de voyage Voyage et aventure Voyageurs et explorateurs Aventure Ouvrages généraux Inspirant Région polaire Survie

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"Painting a realistic portrait of Aussie explorer Douglas Mawson and his arduous trek through some of the most treacherous icy Antarctic terrain, Roberts gives the reader a very close look at the huge risks and preparations of the nearly impossible feat…Harrowing, exciting and brutally real, Roberts provides a chilling backstory to polar explorer Mawson’s bold solitary survival tale." (Publishers Weekly)

"Mountaineer and prolific author Roberts returns with a vivid history of Australian explorer Douglas Mawson and his 1912 exploration of Antarctica…. Roberts creates a full portrait of Mawson and does justice to what famed mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary would later call 'the greatest survival story in the history of exploration.'" (Kirkus Reviews)

"Douglas Mawson is not as well-known as Amundsen, Scott, or Shackleton, but as this intense and thrilling epic shows, he deserves a place on the pedestal next to these other great explorers of the Antarctic…. This fast-moving account earns for Mawson and his team a well-deserved place of honor in the so-called heroic age of Antarctic exploration." (Booklist)
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Mawson is the least mentioned of Antarctic explorers but his story is no less interesting. The only other story Equally neglected is that of the tragedy of Shackletons support team who so heroically although senselessly lost their lives to set up supply cairns for save those who would never come. This is the second or third saddest story Antarctica has to tell.

An explorer ignored

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I was very excited to read "the greatest survival story in the history of exploration", except that this book was not that. There is really only about an hour of Mawson's trek and the rest is filler.

Not as described

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excellent story recounting the AAE. however, considering that a journey to the South Pole requires talking about latitude and longitude, it's important to know how to read degrees and minutes. throughout the entirety of the reading, the narrator consistently mistakes an apostrophe mark as a symbol for feet rather than minutes. other than that it was awesome

minutes, not feet

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It was over 100 years ago and I still get amazed at what explorers were able to do with so little actual technology in those times.
There are scary parts too.

Fascinating

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David Roberts leads readers through a description of the early 20th century exploits of legendary Australian explorer Douglas Mawson. From his role in co-discovering the Magnetic South Pole as part of the 1907 'Nimrod' expedition to his near-miraculous survival as a member of an ill-fated 3-man component of the Australasian ('AAE') surveying enterprise, Mawson is a fascinating figure.
Roberts's documentary is well-researched and well-written, but nowhere near as captivating as the subtitle would suggest ("The Greatest Survival Story In The History Of Exploration"). It's interesting.. but not that.

The narration from Matthew Brehner is similarly serviceable yet unspectacular. To be certain, his timbre, cadence, and tone are creditable.. but he's guilty of mispronunciation a number of times, often overenunciates, and reads far too slowly. Setting playback speed at 1.20X corrects for many of these deficiencies, but Blackstone Audio Inc. could surely have cast this project better.

Altogether, I am happy to have spent the time listening to this 6/10-star 'Plus' selection.. but keep browsing should they ask for a Credit ('Endurance' - also available on Audible and discussing Ernest Shackleton's near-disastrous 1914 trans-Antarctic undertaking - is far superior).

[Incidentally: The "Hypervitaminosis A from eating Greenland Husky Liver" hypothesis is genuinely intriguing]

Serviceable Biography of an Antarctic Adventurer

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