xvi, 180 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Summary
Douglas Mawson is famous as an Antarctic explorer who narrowly escaped death on the ice. In this book, Emma McEwin, Mawson's great-granddaughter, reflects on her forebear's public and private persona. Inspired by letters and portraits and other material traces of his legacy, she writes intimately about his effect on generations of his family and the making and unmaking of myths about him
Analysis
Australian
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-171) and index