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by Edmund Hillary (Foreword), Lennard Bickel (Author)

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Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Steerforth Press; Subsequent edition (Mar 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1586420003
ISBN-13: 978-1586420000
Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mawson's Will, 8 Dec 2007

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Without being fully aware of the history of the polar expeditions or polar travel in general, I began this book expecting a great adventure story and nothing more. This book more than delivered in that respect. Not only is it immensely easy to read, but I found it difficult to put down and became completely engrossed in the story that unfolded. I got choked up a great deal towards the end and felt anxious and exhausted along with the people in the book. For the two days that it took to read, I lived the fears and exhaustion along with the author and finished the book feeling wrung out, yet strangely exhilarated. I can not imagine what it must be like to travel in such a hostile environment, but this book goes some way to helping you picture what it may of been like. It also has some great old photography. If you like survival stories or are interested in the polar expeditions you must add this book to your library, it is a superb read that will keep you gripped throughout. Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Jaw dropping survival story., 9 Dec 2001

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Douglas Mawson is someone who doesn't get the credit he deserves ; especially in comparison to Robert Scott. A member of the 1907 Nimrod expedition, he organised his own trip to the land south of Australia in 1913, and this excellent book is the tale of that trip.

Mawson had to contend not only with the death in a crevasse of his companion Ninnis, but had to witness the slow descent into madness and death of his other companion, Mertz, then made his way hundreds of miles back to his base at Cape Dennison, surviving on left over scraps and eating his dogs.

Sometimes it is easier to die like Scott than to continue, (Cherry Garrard makes a similar point in "The Worst Journey in the World"), graphically illustrated when Mawson falls into a crevasse, and somehow pulled himself out. But survive he did,and lived to a ripe old age.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate survival story, 17 Jan 2001

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Douglas Mawson chose not to join the race for the South Pole with the ill-fated Scott. Instead of ego aggrandisement, Mawson chose science and set out on a smaller geologic expedition of another area of the frozen South. An experienced polar explorer, Mawson began with a party of two others, but eventually the group of three was reduced to the indefatigible Mawson alone. Bickel's rendition of Mawson's solitary struggle is based on Mawson's own journals of a story that deserves a place ahead of all the accounts of Scott and Shakleton. Bickel captures well the character of the man and, even more, the psychological terrors to which Mawson refused to succumb as he battled the physical obstacles. More than twenty years after this reviewer's first reading, Mawson's Will stands as a premier account of an individual's determination to survive.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A true survival story
If any book captures the spirit of human survival it is this one by Douglas Mawson. It is the story of an Antarctic expedition that went horribly wrong and tells how Mawson had to... Read more

Published 12 months ago by Mr. A. Whiteside

5.0 out of 5 stars And then there was one
What is just as unbelievable as this truly remarkable story itself is that Mawson has never had the same recognition as his contemporaries, Scott and Shackleton. Read more

Published 23 months ago by Miseri57

5.0 out of 5 stars Bickel's Gift
Rarely has fiction served the truth so well. Rarely has the truth served fiction so well.

Mawson's own account of his ordeal, in "The Home of The Blizzard", seems... Read more

Published on 22 Oct 2007 by calmly

5.0 out of 5 stars Mawson's Will review
As a fan of real life tales of adventure, I loved this book. I found it gripping, the detail, the anguish, the physical and mental hardship, the historical detail - awesome read... Read more

Published on 19 Dec 2006 by Anne

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a bibiliography or expedition description
If you were expecting or looking for a description of the 1913 Australian Antarctic Expedition, you won't find find it in this book. Nor is it a biography of Mawson. Read more

Published on 25 Mar 2006 by drifter

5.0 out of 5 stars Some Banana
This book doesnt really capture the imagination until a good way through it, and not until the end do you fully realise its title. Read more

Published on 30 Nov 2002 by Mr. N. Richardson

5.0 out of 5 stars Compelling story of a man's will to survive
Mawson led a band of resourceful explorers to chart vast expanses of Antarctica. They fought to ensure they were not swallowed by the incredible unexplored and dangerous void... Read more

Published on 13 Jul 2001 by benjaminhunter

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