APPENDIX IV NOTES ON PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MINERALOGY IV.1: ICE AND SNOW NOTES BY DOUGLAS MAWSON, B.Sc., B.E.

The other items of our equipment were as follows: Two tents, with poles and floorcloths, each weighingDans la catégorie « aventures polaires qui font froid dans le dos et les chaussettes », j’avais lu le merveilleux et sublime Terreur de Dan Simmons. Cette lecture m’avait donné envie d’en lire plus sur le sujet, mais un livre en entraînant un autre… Or, lors de ma découverte de Jeffrey Archer et de l’existence brève et intense de George Mallory, le sujet est revenu sur le tapis, car de grands noms de l’exploration polaire étaient cités dans la biographie romancée. Encore sous le choc de la fin tragique de Mallory, je me suis mise en quête de récits polaires. Et voici donc l’un des plus percutants. Je l’annonce dès maintenant, d’autres suivront, car ma PAL s’est enrichie récemment, pour prolonger et renouveler un plaisir glacial, et néanmoins transcendant. This three-volume limited edition is “one of the most handsome productions in the Antarctic canon” (ibid.); the “most luxurious publication to have appeared during the ‘heroic age’ of Antarctic exploration” (Taurus). Presentation sets are genuinely uncommon and highly desirable, and the more so with such a striking association, linking one of the towering figures of polar exploration and “the greatest figure who ever walked down Fleet Street” (ODNB). Royds after the expedition had reached the Antarctic regions. FOOD-SUPPLIES FOR THE SHORE-PARTY FOR TWO YEARS In terms of production, I would have loved better visuals. The maps are awful--bare sketches, hard to make out, missing almost all the landmarks mentioned in the book. It also would have been nice if they could have included more of the photographs the narrative described. Mabye in a different edition! altitude, according to the hypsometer, is 6100 ft. Note. When I showed the specimens to Professor David

IN ANTARCTICA BY THE BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION 1907-1909 BY PROFESSOR T. W. EDGEWORTH DAVID, H.A.. The Heart of the Antarctic” is a structural guide on the survival experience in the most challenging wilderness, mysterious and untouched in those times, on the one hand, and a magnificent discovery of the natural riches and laws depicted with numerous photos and eloquent descriptions, on the other. It is an enlightened journey to icebound shores and caverns, overcast and vast skies, and inlets interspersed with icebergs. Unpeopled stillness of unwieldy proportions evinces a great interest in the magnificence of the human spirit with unquenched thirst for triumphing over achieved long-wished-for goals. First signed limited edition: Heart of the Antarctic number 130 of 330 numbered copies, The Antarctic Book one of 300 unnumbered, signed by all the members of the shore party, here in the second, corrected state, the contents without the mistaken reference to “Aurora Australis”, and no signature “d” to p. 26. Each November, the penguins return from an intensive spell of deep sea fishing to their breeding grounds at the post office, sometimes trekking nearly two miles across sea ice and snow to get there when the weather is especially bad. Their human neighbors must do the same. As the volunteers prepare for the tourists, the penguins are busy locating life-long partners and building nests made of small stones piled one on top of the other to create good drainage from snow and rain. Squabbles often break out in the colony as stones are pilfered from neighbors and unattended nests are appropriated. Meanwhile, mating begins and clutches of two eggs are laid, which usually hatch in two months. The parents share incubation duties, one always staying on the nest, keeping the eggs warm and protected from predators while the other is away fishing. Still, despite best efforts, some eggs are always lost to the repeated aerial assaults of skuas, foraging for food to support families of their own.