Hobart Bookshop
The Hobart Bookshop is pleased to invite you to celebrate the launch of Lynette Finch’s Fixing Antarctica: Mapping the Frozen South.
When: Thursday October 2, 5.30pm
Where: The Hobart Bookshop
Fixing Antarctica tells the story of Syd Kirkby, an extraordinary modern day explorer who mapped vast tracks of Antarctica. In 1956, in the height of the cold war, Syd joined fourteen scientists who spent fifteen months on an isolated rock outcrop at the edge of the Antarctic plateau. Mawson station was Australia’s first continental station and is now the longest continuously operating settlement inside the Antarctic Circle.
Over the next twenty years Syd Kirkby explored and mapped more unknown regions in the world than any other person in history.
Fixing Antarctica is the first full biography of this important twentieth century explorer. Told through interviews with his contemporaries, personal diaries and the diaries of other Antarctic explorers, this account establishes Kirkby in his rightful place as one of the great polar explorers.
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