Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

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 and the Quest

Arctic Exploration

London Life

Treasure Island

Last Posts

The Boat

Edward Saunders, the shy ghost writer

T.H. Orde-Lees and Harry McNeish, Karori companions

Gordon Burt, a biographical note

Roderick Carr and the Antarctic Baby aircraft

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

John Bell Thomson spent his working life as a journalist in New Zealand, Australia, Britain and East Africa before retiring in 1996. When he first heard the name of Frank Worsley, he was disappointed to discover that no book had ever been written about his exceptional fellow countryman.