Anna Lucas: 2 books
by Anna Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922) was a key player in the Heroic Era of Antarctic exploration. An Irish-born merchant seaman, entrepreneur, lover of poetry and a born leader, he inspired the men who travelled with him on British expeditions to Antarctica. Douglas Mawson, then a young lecturer in geology...
by Anna Lucas
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
In this illustrated narrative, Basilisk, acknowledged as top sledge-dog, recounts the adventures and misadventures of Douglas Mawson’s historic Australasian Antarctic Expedition. It was a tough assignment: travelling by ship from his Arctic home, through the tropics (no place for a Greenland dog...