The ice and the inland : Mawson, Flynn, and the myth of the frontier / Brigid Hains.
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Carlton South, Vic. :
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Table of Contents:
- Prelude: Beltana, South Australia, 1911
- Pt. 1. Mawson of the Antarctic: The Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14
- 1. 'Life opens up to one': The call of the Antarctic frontier
- 2. 'Weirdness and beauty': The Antarctic wilderness
- 3. 'True scientists for everything': The technological frontier
- 4. 'The dear old penguins': At home in Antarctic nature
- Interlude: From the Ice to the Inland
- Pt. 2. Flynn of the Inland, 1900-32
- 5. 'Bushborn conquerors over nature': The city, the bush, and the frontier ideal
- 6. 'Australia is a weird land': Frontier anxieties
- 7. 'Essential unity': The organic nation
- 8. 'A mantle of safety': Domesticating the frontier
- Finale: 'A wild precision, a strict disorder'.
