The Silence Calling is Tim Bowden's exemplary record of their [Australian's in Antarctica] achievement Peter Pierce, Australian Book Review [The Silence Calling] is full of drama and adventure and a sense of the last frontier. Yvonne Preston, Canberra Times Books simply don't get much better than this. Tim Bowden's 600-page saga about the Earth's last great wilderness, its only untamed frontier is an epic work befitting the beauty and the terror of Antarctica. Sunday Telegraph The Silence Calling is a fascinating and often moving account of the work and life of Australians in Antarctica. It traces the development of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) from the first day the Australian flag was raised on Australia's remote Southern Ocean outpost of Heard Island on Boxing Day 1947 up to the present day. Thousands of men and women from all over Australia and from many backgrounds have lived, worked and, indeed, played in that dangerous, hostile and overwhelmingly beautiful environment to become part of Australia's Antarctic legend. However, The Silence Calling is not just about personal endeavour and hardship
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Tim Bowden is a Sydney broadcaster, radio and television documentary maker, oral historian and author. He hosted the ABC-TV listener and viewer reaction program Backchat(1986- 1994). In 1969 he was the first executive producer of the ABC radio current affairs program PM, before becoming a producer with the ground-breaking television current affairs program This Day Tonight in the early 1970s.
For the last 10 years, Tim Bowden has been actively broadcasting, writing and researching Australian activities in Antarctica. He will write and narrate the ANARE Jubilee documentary The Silence Calling planned for 1999.
IntroductionPrefaceBirth of ANAREHeard IslandMacquarie Island: The push southFirst operational yearEarly TimesTesting TimesBreaking the IceEarly ExplorationVirgin TerritorySpreading WingsAntarctica InternationalA Year to RememberANARE LifeFilling in the MapWhy are we there?From Pillar to PostBuilding and MovingField WorkLiving DangerouslyTurbulent TimesTowards 2000Changing CultureScience and the FutureAppendixNotesIndex
