South by Northwest: The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica by Granville Allen Mawer

South by Northwest: The Magnetic Crusade and the Contest for Antarctica by Granville Allen Mawer

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781862546509
Author: Granville Allen Mawer
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Place: Adelaide SA
Year: 2006
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 336 pages
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minimal edgewear. Small mark on right foredge. Dust jacket has slight creasing at top and tail.

For many, Antarctic history begins and ends with the race between Scott and Amundsen for the geographic south pole, but they were late to the start and only briefly on the course. By then, another polar race had already been in progress for seventy years, and it would continue for even longer.

That race, for the South Magnetic Pole, was a marathon rather than a sprint and its starting point was suitably distant from Antarctica, in the ice of the fabled Northwest Passage.

The Magnetic Pole eluded the rival French, American and British expeditions sent to find it in 1840-1841. It also defeated their successors - Shackleton and Mawson - at the turn of the century.

Not until 1986 did Australian scientists succeed, and only then by literally running it down. Along the way, the magneticians collectively unveiled much of Greater Antarctica, but their achievements were blighted by bitter controversies about who first saw what. Governments, being what they are, turned these into another contest, one for Antarctic territory. (publisher blurb)

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