Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration (Audiobook)

from oldman

Alone o nthe Ice by David Roberts recounts the adventure of Douglas Mawson, an Antartic explorer, who survived twenty days in the artic cold by himself after both of his traveling partners died in the bitter cold. The first died falling into a crevass, the other died essentially of starvation. Ho...

from Stbalbach

Prior to the publication of Mawson's Will in the mid 1970s, the story of Douglas Mawson was only well known among specialists. Thereafter he's had a renaissance and became probably the 4th most famous explorer of the "Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration" (1893-1922) after Scott, Shackleton and Ro...

from MontzaleeW

Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts is a detailed account to the Antarctic of 1913. A brief description of other trips and the men who went there is in here also. Then the details of little things I would never have thought about being trap...

from dallenbaugh

Amazing survival story of Douglas Mawson, but also an interesting story of polar exploration centered around Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition AAE, 1913. It was during the time of intense Antarctic exploration by Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen as they attempted to reach the south pole, b...

from Jaynee

It took a while for me to get into the book. The beginning is rather dry and lacks narrative. But once the story of Mawson's amazing Antarctic survival began, I was hooked. In the end, I loved the book and recommend it.