Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
by Lennard Bickel
Recommended by Chelsea Handler and Tim O’Reilly
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Adventure, Most Recommended Books, and History.
Mawson's Will is the dramatic story of what Sir Edmund Hillary calls "the most outstanding solo journey ever recorded in Antarctic history." For weeks in Antarctica, Douglas Mawson faced some of the most daunting conditions ever known to man: blistering wind, snow, and cold; loss of his companion, his dogs and supplies, the skin on his hands and th...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Adventure, Most Recommended Books, and History.
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Chelsea Handler
“Honorable mention to a few other books I really enjoyed this year: Winners Take All, by Anand Giridharadas; Automating Inequality, by Virginia Eubanks; Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero, by James Romm; In the Garden of Beasts, by Erik Larsen; AI Superpowers, by KaiFu Lee; Antarctica, by Kim Stanley Robinson, and its truelife counterpart, Mawson's Will, by Lennard Bickel.”
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