The Body at the Melbourne Club: Bertram Armytage, Antarctica's Forgotten Man
Author(s): David Burke
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 mystery-cum-biography provides a new perspective on one of Shackleton's greatest expeditions.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Wakefield Press US
- : Wakefield Press
- : 0.33
- : 30 November 2008
- : 210mm X 135mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : 224
- : 2019
- : Paperback
- : David Burke