BODY AT THE MELBOURNE CLUB Bertram Armytage, Antarcticas Forgotten Man
by Burke, David
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1862548331
- ISBN 13
- 9781862548336
- Seller
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WARRNAMBOOL, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Kent Town, South Aust.: Wakefield Press. Near Fine. 2009. First Edition. Paperback. 1862548331 . With many illustrations, a fine copy. Bertram Armytage, son of a wealthy squatter, a popular sportsman who rowed for Cambridge, was the first Australian-born member of an Antarctic expedition. An expert horseman, he was given charge of the ponies in Ernest Shackleton's great 1907-1909 expedition, narrowly escaping the jaws of killer whales. In London he was decorated by royalty, but on coming home to Australia he went to his part-time city residence, the exclusive Melbourne Club, put on his dinner suit and polar medals and, at the age of 41, shot himself. This provides a new perspective on one of Shackleton's greatest expeditions. ; 210 x 140mm; xvi, 170 pages .
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- Bookseller
- M & A Simper Bookbinders (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24376
- Title
- BODY AT THE MELBOURNE CLUB Bertram Armytage, Antarcticas Forgotten Man
- Author
- Burke, David
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1862548331
- ISBN 13
- 9781862548336
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Place of Publication
- Kent Town, South Aust.
- Date Published
- 2009
- Keywords
- 1862548331
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biographical; Crime; Antarctica;
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