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Body at the Melbourne Club
David Burke
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Bertram Armytage, Antarctica's Forgotten Man
出版Wakefield Press, 2009
主題Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN18625483319781862548336
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5_idgx67rC8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.