Main Title: |
The many lives of Douglas Mawson / Emma McEwin. |
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Author: |
McEwin, Emma
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Imprint: |
North Melbourne, Victoria : Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, 2018. |
Collation: |
xvi, 180 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, paperback ; 23 cm. |
Subject: |
Mawson, Douglas, Sir, 1882-1958 Biography European exploration and explorers
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ISBN: |
9781925588910 (paperback) |
Notes: |
Douglas Mawson is famous as an Antarctic explorer who narrowly escaped death on the ice. In this book, Emma McEwin, Mawson great-granddaughter, reflects on her forebear 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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 148-171) and index.
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