Diaries of Frank Hurley 1912-1941

Robert Dixon is Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and has published widely on Australian literature, postcolonialism, Australian cultural studies, Australian art history, and early photography and cinema.Christopher Lee is Professor of English and the Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Southern Queensland. He is a past-President of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and a founding editor of the association’s journal JASAL. His research interests include Australian literature, the history of criticism, public memory and the representation of war.

• List of Illustrations; Introduction; Acknowledgements and Notes on the Text; 1. Sledging Diary, the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (November 1912–January 1913); 2. The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Diary (November 1914–April 1917); 3. The Great War Diary (August 1917–August 1918); 4. Tour Diary – ‘In the Grip of the Polar Pack-Ice’ (December 1919–January 1920); 5. The Torres Strait and Papua Expedition Diaries (December 1920–August 1921); 6. The Papua Expedition Diary (August 1922–January 1923); 7. The World War II and Middle East Diaries (September 1940–October 1941); Index

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