Mawson's own writings are not to be missed. I'm currently getting though the verion of his diarising and field-note-taking edited by Fred Jacka and his missus (I apologise for not remembering her name.

As an aside, Mawson made it back to Commonwealth Bay just as the ship disappeared back to Oz and wasn't able to return until the following spring. Mawson and those who stayed and waited for him lived on hard rations for that extra winter. Even now mainland ANAREs take down a year's supply of food, stash the nonperishables and then consume the noperishables brought down by the previous group. And, in my 14 months there, there were no "Use by" or "Best before" dates to keep us from getting stuck into good tucker.

Cheers, Rowan