mcewin emma (7 risultati)

No Jacket. 22.0 x 14.0cms 180pp b/w & colour illusts. Ex-library. This book which reflects on Mawson's private & public persona is written by Mawson's great-granddaughter.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine condition. An excellent copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 254 pages. Explores the reasons why Mawson survived and the very important role his wife, Paquita, played in his survival and success. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: New. 1st Edition. MINT - a NEW copy. Illustrated with Colour and Black & White Photographs. 180 pages. Douglas Mawson is famous as an Antarctic explorer who narrowly escaped death on the ice. In this book, Emma McEwin, Mawson's great-granddaughter, reflects on her forebear's public and private persona. Inspired by letters and portraits and other material traces of his legacy, she writes intimately about his effect on generations of his family and the making and unmaking of myths about him.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The cover has a little wear. The page edges are lightly tanned. 254 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Pages have started to sun. Body text and binding are still very good. Emma McEwin's book is unique in that she weaves in stories of other explorers and expeditions, and by putting Douglas Mawson in polar and historical context, we gain a new appreciation of his extraordinary achievements.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition.

Folio, pale-grey cloth, spine has black labels embossed with gold lettering. Front cover embossed with a small graphic, lettering and decorative borders. Xxvi, 216 pp., frontispiece, facsimile of five editions of the Adelie Blizzard newspaper, some leaves interspersed between editions unpaginated. Illustrated with some colour images of paintings, drawings and maps; some black-and-white photographs and diagrams included. A fine copy. First edition. A beautiful facsimile of the five editions of Sir Douglas Mawson's newspaper, the Adelie Blizzard. Written by Mawson and his colleagues in 1913, the newspaper was a valuable creative outlet for the men who had withstood much hardship in the prior year. The facsimiles show the corrections and edits made by Mawson and his team, hand-written headings and information gleaned from wireless communication with Australia. This handsome volume includes a preface by Emma McEwin, Mawson's great-granddaughter, as well as an introduction by Dr Elizabeth Leane, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Tasmania and Mark Pharaoh, Senior Collection Manager at the South Australian Museum. Also included are brief biographies of the expedition's members, and full-page reproductions of some of the artworks and photographs by the expedition's artists Joseph van Waterschoot van der Gracht, Charles Harrison and Frank Hurley.