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Born Adventurer tells the story of Frank Bickerton (1889-1954), the British engineer on Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14. The expedition gave birth to what Sir Ranulph Fiennes has called 'one of the greatest accounts of polar survival in history' and surveyed for the first time the 2,000-mile stretch of coast around Cape Denison, which later became Adelie Land. The AAE was however only one episode in a rich and colourful career. Bickerton accompanied the ill-fate
- Author
- Stephen Haddelsey
- Publisher
- SUTTON PUBLISHING LTD.
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780750940122
- Subjects
- Travel, Biography, Anthropology
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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