Book Description

First edition, one of 450 copies from a total issues of 999. Folio. pp. xxvi, [238]; illusts.; very good in original cloth, slightly bumped.
Dealer Notes
The Adelie Blizzard was a newspaper produced during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914, led by Douglas Mawson. As with the similar newspaper issued on Scott’s expeditions - The South Polar Times - The Adelie Blizzard featured humorous stories, poems, historical notices, and expedition ‘chat’. It was reproduced for the first time in the present form in 2010, from the sole original typesscripts held at the Mawson Centre of the South Australia Museum.
Author [Mawson, Douglas.]
Date 2010
Binding Original cloth
Publisher Adelaide: The Friends of the State Library of South Australia in association with the Friends of Mawson at the South Australia Museum
Condition See description
Pages xxvi, [238]

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