Ernest Shackleton’s fame has been a long time coming. Eclipsed in the British
psyche by that doomed incompetent Captain Scott, it took the Americans to revive
interest in his extraordinary journey to the Antarctic. The vivid memoirs of
Frank Worsley, captain of the Endurance, appear in Shackleton’s Boat
Journey. And Frank Wild, who spent more time in the Antarctic than any man
of his day, finally gets a biography in Frank Wild by Leif
Mills. Worsley’s book is published by Pimlico, £10, ISBN 0712665749,
Mills’s by Caedmon of Whitby, £25.50, ISBN 0905355482.
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