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'The photographs included in this book were taken on the journey by Frank Hurley, later to achieve fame on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Endurance expedition. '
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Douglas Mawson and the Nation of Science
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;'In the early decades of the twentieth century, a nation’s participation in global communities of science denoted high degrees of cultural modernity. For Australia, the accomplishments of Douglas Mawson signified that national assertion. Unlike the arts, where lines of descent and influence remained important, scientists before 1914 frequently saw themselves without borders; this claim offered vast encouragement to newer societies, who found their champion in Ernest Rutherford, born in New Zealand and awarded the Nobel in 1908 for work in Canada. Australia – the new Federation and the progressive states – heartily grasped the opportunity, and Mawson personified that demonstration, particularly in Antarctica: in calling him ‘an Australian Nansen,’ Edgeworth David drew a sharp distinction between Mawson and his British compeers, Scott and Shackleton. Both Mawson and Nansen were field scientists of utmost rigor, who directed their celebrity toward public activism on behalf of a new nation (Australia, 1901; Norway, 1905). That newness, moreover, produced a modernity that Gyan Prakash calls ‘an uncanny double, not a copy, of the European original’ (Another Reason 5); thus, while Mawson represented modern science in Australia, he also worked, consciously and originally, to reconfigure the global playing field of modernity altogether.' (Publication abstract)
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Penguins on Horseback
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 352 2013; -
Antarctic Soup : The Cold Worlds of Mawson and Stillwell
2012
single work
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— Appears in: Ozwords , April vol. 21 no. 1 2012; (p. 3) -
The Home of the Blizzard
1930
single work
review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 November no. 6 1930; (p. 25-26)
— Review of The Home of the Blizzard : The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 1915 single work prose
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The Home of the Blizzard
1930
single work
review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 November no. 6 1930; (p. 25-26)
— Review of The Home of the Blizzard : The Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 1915 single work prose -
Penguins on Horseback
2013
single work
column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 352 2013; -
Antarctic Soup : The Cold Worlds of Mawson and Stillwell
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: Ozwords , April vol. 21 no. 1 2012; (p. 3) -
Douglas Mawson and the Nation of Science
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;'In the early decades of the twentieth century, a nation’s participation in global communities of science denoted high degrees of cultural modernity. For Australia, the accomplishments of Douglas Mawson signified that national assertion. Unlike the arts, where lines of descent and influence remained important, scientists before 1914 frequently saw themselves without borders; this claim offered vast encouragement to newer societies, who found their champion in Ernest Rutherford, born in New Zealand and awarded the Nobel in 1908 for work in Canada. Australia – the new Federation and the progressive states – heartily grasped the opportunity, and Mawson personified that demonstration, particularly in Antarctica: in calling him ‘an Australian Nansen,’ Edgeworth David drew a sharp distinction between Mawson and his British compeers, Scott and Shackleton. Both Mawson and Nansen were field scientists of utmost rigor, who directed their celebrity toward public activism on behalf of a new nation (Australia, 1901; Norway, 1905). That newness, moreover, produced a modernity that Gyan Prakash calls ‘an uncanny double, not a copy, of the European original’ (Another Reason 5); thus, while Mawson represented modern science in Australia, he also worked, consciously and originally, to reconfigure the global playing field of modernity altogether.' (Publication abstract)