TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson, John,
TI  - Shackleton's captain: a biography of Frank Worsley 
SN  - 1877161403 (pbk.)
AV  - G540 .W753 1998
U1  - 919.89092 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - Christchurch, N.Z.
PB  - Hazard Press
KW  - Worsley, Frank Arthur,
KW  - Shackleton, Ernest Henry,
KW  - Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914-1917
KW  - (1914-1917)
KW  - Explorers
KW  - New Zealand
KW  -  Biography
KW  - Sailors
KW  - Biography
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - fast
KW  - Antarctica
KW  - Discovery and exploration
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-205) and index; The family -- First voyage -- Pacific command -- On the ice with Shackleton -- To Elephant Island -- The boat crew -- Preparing the boat -- The boat journey -- Over the Island -- New Zealand with Shackleton -- 1917: the submarine -- Russia -- The Annie & the quest -- Arctic exploration -- London life -- Treasure Island -- Last posts -- The boat -- Appendices (Edward Saunders : the shy ghost writer ; T.H. Orde-Lees & Harry McNeish, Karori companions ; Gordon Burt, a biographical note ; Roderick Carr & the Antarctic Baby aircraft)
N2  - This fasinating biography sets out to tell the full story of Worsley's extraordinary life from a boy growing up in Akaroa, through to the heroic journey he made with Shackleton across eight hundred miles of the world's roughest seas to seek help after their ship, the Endurance was crushed by ice in 1915. Often overshadowed by Shackletons fame, Worsley was a remarkable navigator and sailing master
ER  -