Shackleton's Captain by John Thomson

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Shackleton's Captain by John Thomson

Frank Worsley shared with Sir Ernest Shackleton one of the greatest adventures of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. After their ship Endurance was crushed in the ice in 1915, they made what is perhaps the most famous small-boat journey in history, across 800 miles of the world's roughest seas to get help.Worsley's diaries and notes still provide the main records of that journey, yet the fame of Shackleton rather overshadowed the modest New Zealander. This first ever biography of Worsley sets out to restore the balance. It tells the full story of his extraordinary life, from childhood as a larrikin in Akaroa, New Zealand, to his apprenticeship at sea, and the development of his remarkable skills as navigator and sailing master. It also backgrounds the particular friendship that flourished between Worsley and Shackleton.In an age of mass communications, Frank Worsley would have been a public figure as famous as Sir Edmund Hillary. This biography gives an unhallowed yet eminent New Zealander his proper place in history.

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ISBN 13 9780889626782
ISBN 10 0889626782
Title Shackleton's Captain
Author John Thomson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Mosaic Press
Year published 2010-01-01
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.