The Moss Flora of Macquarie Island
Kingston, Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Environment and Heritage, 2004. More
Polar Exploration
![Item #134254 'A Snow Cornice' [with Xavier Mertz]. Australasian Antarctic Expedition, Frank HURLEY](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/134254_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1690163975)
'A Snow Cornice' [with Xavier Mertz]
Significantly, this dramatic image of an expeditioner on skis, silhouetted against gigantic ice cliffs, features Xavier Mertz, one of the two men to lose their lives on the expedition. This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' with the caption 'Adelie Land. The cliffs at Land's End, Cape..... More
'A Wave Worn Stretch of Icy Coast'
This print comes from the original 1915 London exhibition of Hurley photographs. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the title (as above) and the London catalogue reference number 102 in ink. Provenance: Sir Douglas Mawson; purchased from..... More
South by Northwest. The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica
Kent Town, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
South with Mawson. Reminiscences of the Australian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1957 (second edition, with 'an entirely new set of illustrations')/ 1947. The author was Assistant Biologist to the expedition. More
The Discovery of the South Shetland Islands. The Voyages of the Brig 'Williams', 1819-1820, as recorded in contemporary documents, and the Journal of Midshipman C.W. Poynter
London, Hakluyt Society, 2000. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Volume 4. More
Four Travel Journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874
London, Hakluyt Society, 2007. Hakluyt Society Series 3, Number 18. More
The Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby The Younger. Volume I: The Voyages of 1811, 1812 and 1813; Volume II: The Voyages of 1814, 1815 and 1816 [and] Volume III: The Voyages of 1817, 1818, 1819 and 1820
London, Hakluyt Society, 2003, 2008 and 2009. Hakluyt Society Series 3; Volumes 12, 20 and 21. Edited by C. Ian Jackson, with an Appendix by Fred M. Walker. [3 items]. More
ANARE. Australia's Antarctic Outposts
Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1957. With some loosely inserted related ephemera. More
The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic, 1910-1913
London, The Folio Society, 2012 (first thus). An account of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's disastrous final expedition to the South Pole. 'This is the single greatest book in the literature of polar exploration. There are others that are beautiful. There are others that are exciting. There are some that are..... More
Going to Extremes. Project Blizzard and Australia's Antarctic Heritage
Sydney, Doubleday, 1986. Loosely inserted is a printed acknowledgement slip from Project Blizzard (supporting the conservation of Sir Douglas Mawson's Huts). More
The Lichens and Mosses of Mac.Robertston Land
Melbourne, Antarctic Division, Department of External Affairs Australia, 1966. More
South by Northwest. The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 2006. More
![Item #127458 Wilkes's Antarctic Landfalls. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/127458_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643854967)
Wilkes's Antarctic Landfalls. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 34, 1934
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1934. This issue also contains MILLS, May and Helene RAFFELT: Geographical Observations on the South Mount Lofty Range (38 pages with 3 maps and a diagram plus 2 plates). More
![Item #53908 Macquarie Island. A Sanctuary for Australasian Sub-Antarctic Fauna. [Contained in]...](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/53908_01.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1643863505)
Macquarie Island. A Sanctuary for Australasian Sub-Antarctic Fauna. [Contained in] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, South Australian Branch, Volume 20, 1918-19
Adelaide, RGSSA, 1921. This issue also contains the annual address of the President, the Honorable John LEWIS (67 pages, comprising a detailed account of the voyage of Flinders, concentrating on South Australia west of Port Lincoln); and NEWLAND, Simpson: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life (22 pages). More
Triumph and Tribulation
New York, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1977 (first American edition). The author's last book, documenting three voyages: a circumnavigation of Spitsbergen, and two eventful voyages around Greenland. More
Everest. Summit of Achievement. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary
London, Royal Geographical Society/ Allen & Unwin, 2003. More
A vintage photograph of the team, captioned 'S.P.S.C. v. P.A.C. Annual Football Match, 1903. Won by P.A.C. by 5 goals 10 behinds to S.P.S.C. 3 goals 8 behinds'
Adelaide, The Gresham Studio, 5, King William St. 1903. Those featured in the photograph are (left to right, top to bottom) J.F. Bagot, J.A. Yuill, C.N. Mackenzie, S.D. Ronald, M.H. Moyes, and V.C. Cresdee; T.A. Caterer, Esq. (a master), F. Chambers, W.H. Job, W.G. Duncan, M.J.D. Murray, W.C. Sangster, W.H...... More
A vintage photograph of the 'Inter-University Football. Adelaide v. Melbourne. Played on Melbourne Cricket Ground 1907. Adelaide Team'
Melbourne, The Sears Studio, 1907. The Adelaide University Football Club was formed in 1906. 'During the three years 1908-1910, the Club existed in name only and, except for the annual match against Melbourne University, did not compete at all. This put the Club at a disadvantage in these matches as..... More
The Home of the Blizzard
Adelaide, Wakefield Press, 1996 (fourth impression)/ 1996/ 1930 (abridged edition). This copy is signed by Mawson's two daughters, Patricia and Jessica, and one of his grandsons (Gareth Mawson Thomas). This publication comprises a 'facsimile edition of the text of the [1930] abridged popular edition, featuring original images from the Mawson..... More
The Eskimo and his Art
London, Academy Editions, 1975. More
'A Dreamy Venice in Seal-land'
This photograph is reproduced in 'The Home of the Blizzard' (Volume 1, page 102), with the caption 'Adelie Land. Weddell seals asleep on pancake ice'. Several pages earlier, Mawson writes: 'Seals and penguins on magic gondolas were the silent denizens of this dreamy Venice. In the soft glamour of the..... More
![Item #122914 'A Terminal Moraine [At the wasting face of the great ice-sheet at Cape Denison]'....](https://treloars.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/122914.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1627267844)
'A Terminal Moraine [At the wasting face of the great ice-sheet at Cape Denison]'
This print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label of the Fine Art Society, New Bond Street, London is on the verso of this print, with the full title..... More
'The Nugget Penguin Rookery'
A striking view showing two unidentified expeditioners among the royal penguins at the colony on Nuggets Beach, Macquarie Island. This vintage print comes from the original 1915 Australian exhibition of Hurley photographs; this was a slightly larger version of the London exhibition held earlier in the same year. The label..... More