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Replay: Mental Illness and the Mawson Expedition - Publication Date |
- Feb 29, 2020
- Episode Duration |
- 00:40:29
Elizabeth Leane talks about Sidney Jeffryes, radio operator for Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition in 1913. Jeffryes’ struggle with mental illness challenged Mawson’s expedition and its reception back home. Leane is a professor of English at the University of Tasmania. She’s also the co-author (along with Ben Maddison and Kimberley Norris) of “Beyond the Heroic Stereotype: Sidney Jeffryes and the Mythologising of Australian Antarctic History.”
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