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The riveting story of the race between rival nations - the British, French and Americans - to claim Antarctica's holy grail. In this never-before-told tale of ambition and achievement, maritime historian Allen Mawer resolves some of the controversies that have festered for the past 160 years.

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Granville Allen Mawer is the author of Fast Company, the biography of the clipper ship Walter Hood (Plainwords Press, 1994), Most Perfectly Safe, about the convict shipwrecks of 1833-42 (Allen & Unwin, 1997) and Ahab's Trade, on South Sea whaling (Allen & Unwin, 1999), the last of which was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's History Prize 2000 and the NSW Premier's History Prize 2001. He is a contributor to the Australia Dictionary of Biography and sometimes reviewer of maritime books for The Times Literary Supplement. His most recently published work is The Life and Legend of Jack Doolan, the Wild Colonial Boy (Mulini Press, 2004).

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