The Home of the Blizzard: Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, in Two Volumes

xxx, 348, [1]; xiii, 337, [1] pp. Original red cloth, black titles - one of two binding variants (the other being navy blue cloth with silver titles and Antarctic motif). Illustrated with color and black & white plates, maps. Issued with three fold-out maps in pocket following text of volume 2. A first-hand account of geographic exploration and scientific study by the Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer, who two years before had returned from a voyage to Antarctica on Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition. Mawson's chose to lead his own voyage instead of accompanying Robert F. Scott's Terra Nova expedition, which would prove a wise choice, though he narrowly escaped disaster himself.