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Shackleton's captain : a biography of Frank Worsley / John Thomson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Christchurch, N.Z. : Hazard Press, 1998.Description: 208 p. : ill., facsims., maps, ports. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1877161403 (pbk.)
  • 9781877161407 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 919.89092 21
LOC classification:
  • G540 .W753 1998
Contents:
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).
Summary: 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.
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Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage Non Fiction 920 WOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00233477

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).

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.

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