{"product_id":"9781803992792-born-adventurer","title":"Born Adventurer","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Life of Frank Bickerton Antarctic Pioneer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe definitive biography of one of Antarctic exploration's little known heroes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSoldiers 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTreasure-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 \u003cem\u003eEndurance\u003c\/em\u003e Expedition, dug for pirate gold on Robert Louis Stevenson’s \u003cem\u003eTreasure Island\u003c\/em\u003e, survived bloody dogfights over the Western Front during the First World War, and flirted with the glittering world of 1920s Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBorn Adventurer\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40805635653729,"sku":"9781803992792","price":11.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_30079338.jpg?v=1726675318","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803992792-born-adventurer","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}