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Born Adventurer

- The Life of Frank Bickerton Antarctic Pioneer
Af: Stephen Haddelsey Engelsk Paperback

Born Adventurer

- The Life of Frank Bickerton Antarctic Pioneer
Af: Stephen Haddelsey Engelsk Paperback
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Soldiers and sailors, geographers and geologists, submariners and balloonists all flocked to Antarctica during the ‘Heroic Age’ of Polar exploration. No one better represented this eclectic band than Frank Bickerton, engineer on Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911–14. A true pioneer of Antarctic exploration, he piloted the expedition’s ‘air-tractor’, established the first crucial wireless link between Antarctica and the rest of the world, and discovered one of the first meteorites ever to be found on the continent.

Treasure-hunter, explorer, fighter pilot, entrepreneur, big-game hunter and movie-maker, Bickerton not only made a major contribution to the success of the AAE, but was also recruited by Ernest Shackleton for his ill-fated Endurance Expedition, dug for pirate gold on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, survived bloody dogfights over the Western Front during the First World War, and flirted with the glittering world of 1920s Hollywood.

In Born Adventurer, historian Stephen Haddelsey draws on unique access to family papers, journals and letters to provide a thrilling account of Bickerton’s rich and colourful life.

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Soldiers and sailors, geographers and geologists, submariners and balloonists all flocked to Antarctica during the ‘Heroic Age’ of Polar exploration. No one better represented this eclectic band than Frank Bickerton, engineer on Douglas Mawson’s Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE) of 1911–14. A true pioneer of Antarctic exploration, he piloted the expedition’s ‘air-tractor’, established the first crucial wireless link between Antarctica and the rest of the world, and discovered one of the first meteorites ever to be found on the continent.

Treasure-hunter, explorer, fighter pilot, entrepreneur, big-game hunter and movie-maker, Bickerton not only made a major contribution to the success of the AAE, but was also recruited by Ernest Shackleton for his ill-fated Endurance Expedition, dug for pirate gold on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, survived bloody dogfights over the Western Front during the First World War, and flirted with the glittering world of 1920s Hollywood.

In Born Adventurer, historian Stephen Haddelsey draws on unique access to family papers, journals and letters to provide a thrilling account of Bickerton’s rich and colourful life.

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ISBN-13: 9781803992792
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1803992794
Kategori: Antarctica
Udg. Dato: 27 apr 2023
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 199mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 27 apr 2023
Forfatter(e): Stephen Haddelsey
Forfatter(e) Stephen Haddelsey

Kategori Antarctica

ISBN-13 9781803992792

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 0

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 199mm

Højde 129mm

Udg. Dato 27 apr 2023

Oplagsdato 27 apr 2023

Forlag The History Press Ltd

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