The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
by Lennard Bickel
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Recommended by Tim O’Reilly and Chelsea Handler
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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, Action & Adventure, and Most Recommended Books.
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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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