BLIZZARD PICTURED.
DOUGLAS MAWSON'S BOOK. o . _^ , LONDON, Jan. 29. Sir Douglas Mawson's book The Home of the Blizzard is distinotly Australian. It is also the best-written and most remantic story of Antarctic adventure ever produced. The pictures are perfect, especially the strange animal studies m the vicinity of Lape Denison. The letterpress is vividly and vieorously -written. Describing a blizzard SLr^T £ cfcare a dT i h *° ***** that daylight comes through dnllv though maybe the sun is shining m a cloudless sky. drifts hurled screaminir through space at. 100 miles an hour shrouding the infuriated elements m the darkness of a Polar night, and the bl? Z ! zard is presented mits severer aspects. A plunge into the raging storm-whirl stamps upon the senses an indelible and awful impression seldom equalled m the whole gamut of natural experience The SSfaSr void and ■«** fierce an <*
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13603, 8 February 1915, Page 3
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