Mawson's Will By Lennard Bickel. This is the greatest polar survival story ever written. Setting out with two companions and two teams of dogs, Mawson encountered daunting mountains, crevasse-filled glaciers and sixty-mile-per-hour winds where one of his fellow explorers and a team of dogs disappeared into a "bottomless" crevasse, along with the tent, most of the equipment, and all but a week's supply of food. After losing his second companion and the remaining dogs, he fought his way back from what seemed inescapable death, enduring blistering wind, snow and cold, thirst, starvation, disease and snowblindness. PB. 257 pgs.