"Tp Howe oF tHe Butzano."—By Sir Douglas Mawson, Abridged Pop Baition, Hodder & Stoughton, London, With explorers flying to the Poles and an expedition preparing to make the trip by submarine it li more than interesting to hark back to the time when men trudged there on foot with no more assistance than a dog team which gear rally was killed for £7] when the. rations ran out, Sir Douglas Maw-Son's book, which is a record of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-1914, tells of this and much more, In an abridged form, omitting much technical detail' which would interest only the scientific reader, Sir Douglas' book is one of the most thrilling narrations of adventure, struggle with superhuman forees at the other end of the earth, and triumph of human courage and endurance ever written. And the more so because it is Lac not fiction, \As a result of th expedition which spent two years the Antarctic, much valuable. scientific data wis gathered, and considerable gaps filled in Ue map. of that unknown region, but one cannot avoid reaching the conclu. ion that it was as much a trial ymph of the human equal was a triumph of dis-
'Sir Douglas tells in detail how the conceived the idea of the edition and how arrangement were made in England tralia to carry it out. 'The Auro: was obtained as a supply ves: and funds were obtained in both' countries although Sir Douglas wanted it primarily to be an Australian expedition with the Australian quadrant of the Antarctic og the particular sphere of exp! tion. Eventually the—expedi eft and the first party was landed fat Macquarie Island, which was the base and where a wireless station was erected, Incidentally, the station was not so successful as the advanced party found it difficult to erect their wireless aerial owing to the terrific blizzards which raged.
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