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Body at the Melbourne Club: Bertram Armytage, Antarctica's Forgotten Man
Body at the Melbourne Club: Bertram Armytage, Antarctica's Forgotten Man
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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.
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Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781862548336
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