A biography covering the full range of Sir Douglas Mawson's life and work, his character and attainments, his virtues and faults, his place in the past and his significance for the present.
Philip Ayres is the author of Owen Dixon, of Malcolm Fraser, of Mawson (still the only whole-of-life biography of its subject aside from Lady Mawson's), of Prince of the Church (on Cardinal Moran, the first Australian cardinal), of Fortunate Voyager- The World of Ninian Stephen and of numerous scholarly books and articles on English eighteenth-century culture including Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth Century England. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society of London and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a recipient of the Centenary Medal for contributions to literature.
"By unearthing a massive amount of new material, using thousands of
previously unpublished personal letters and expeditioners' diary
notes, Ayres manages to chip away the ice to reveal the man inside
the well-known image of a knight in woolen armor." --The Age
"In this definitive biography . . . Ayres reveals a man whose
passions extended far beyond the frozen continent that made him
famous." --Sunday Times
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