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Title: Shackleton's Captain: A Biography of Frank Worsley by John Thomson ISBN: 0-88962-678-2 Publisher: Mosaic Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A hero with humour
Comment: This is my favourite book about Antarctic exploration - even surpassing Mawson's 'Home of the Blizzard'. The book captures the humour, insight and stubbornness of Frank Worsley from his upbringing in Akaroa, New Zealand, to his adventures with Shackleton and maritime career.
Worsley's skills as a sailor, navigator and writer made Shackleton's story possible and the book gives a clear insight into the personal qualities of heroic era adventurers 'when ships were made of wood and men were made of steel'.
A facinating and exciting book, well written and researched, with excellent photographs - this is my most frequently loaned book! [Incidentally, Frank Worsley's diaries can be seen at NZ's Canterbury Museum.]
Rating: 5
Summary: Great
Comment: This book was great. Finally some one has given the credit to Frank Worsley that he deserves. The book tells everything from his days as a boy to the Trans-Arctic Expedition to his death. Read this book, it's great!
Rating: 5
Summary: A definite must for polar collections
Comment: Frank Worsley was Ernest Shackleton's captain, so he is a name that is not commonly known. A common mistake for so many biographers of secondary expeditionary characters is that they get caught up in the relationship to the major character and the biography turns out to be about them. That was my main concern when I first picked up this biograpy of Frank Worsley - that his personality and achievements would be overshadowed by those of Shackleton. Not in this biograpy though - Thomson keeps his story firmly about Worsley, and this story is every bit as interesting as Shackleton's.
Worsley, you see, was Shackleton's captain in the Antarctic expedition that almost ended in disaster in 1914/15. A dreadful summer in the south meant that their boat, the Endurance, was trapped inescapably in pack ice and so began one of the most incredible, courageous and stoic journeys in all polar exploration history. Shackleton's story has been told many times - how the men survived on Elephant Island, and how, with Worsley and some others they sailed across the wildest ocean in the world in a tiny boat to South Georgia to get a rescue craft for the rest of the crew. Even then disaster after disaster struck, they were almost smashed on the rocky coast of South Georgia, once ashore they had to cross the mountainous and glacier ridden interior to reach help on the other coast, and then they had to endure several failed attempts to reach the rest of the survivors back on Elephant Island. This story is told again, but teasing out Worsley's perspective and contributions.
Worsley's story isn't solely about this one incident, dramatic as it is. His life from his childhood to his further expeditions to the Arctic with Shackleton and his first and second world war experiences are all here. I think Thomson really gets inside the man in this book. There are numerous photos and illustrations - most of the Endurance and Quest photos of Shackelton's are widely available in other publications though. There is also a good index and a good appendix if you want to read further information on Worsley or his companions.
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Title: Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Arthur Worsley ISBN: 0393318648 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Shackleton's Forgotten Men: The Untold Tale of an Antarctic Tragedy by Lennard Bickel, Rt. Hon. Lord Shackleton ISBN: 1560252561 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 22 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Tom Crean: Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions by Michael Smith ISBN: 089886870X Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Antarctic Eyewitness: Charles F. Faseron's South With Mawson and Frank Hurley's Shackleton's Argonauts by Frank Hurley, Charles Laseron ISBN: 0207196176 Publisher: Angus & Robertson Publishers Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure by F. A. Worsley, F.A. Worsley, Patrick O'Brian ISBN: 0393319946 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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