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'One of the most inspiring books - compulsive reading' --The Irish Times
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The Irish have left an indelible mark in the most hostile territory on earth, Antarctica. It was the Irish who pioneered a route to the Antarctic and whose adventures 100 years ago gripped the attention of the world. Their contribution is now told in a single volume celebrating their amazing exploits. The earliest voyages to the Antarctic ice are saluted with due consideration given to present-day adventurers who have taken up the torch. Quotations from first-hand accounts, photographs of the intrepid men, relics, medals, and sites enhance the poignant text. Explorers included are: * Cork-born Bransfield, Forde and Keohane as well as the only pair of brothers to explore the Antarctic, the McCarthys from Kinsale. * Banbridge man, Francis Crozier * Ernest Shackleton from Kildare * Kerryman Tom Crean. * Mike Barry from Kerry, the first Irishman to walk to the South Pole * Clare O'Leary, from Bandon, the first Irishwoman to do so * Mark Pollock, from Down, was the first blind person to trek to the pole. The great Amundsen wrote Shackleton's name would 'for evermore be engraved with letters of fire in the history of Antarctic exploration'. He might well have been speaking of Ireland.
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Another great book from Michael Smith stable,
By Tilly (Kent) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Great Endeavour: Ireland's Antarctic Explorers (Hardcover)
For me this was another great read. Michael Smith has made the point, in this and other books, that the expedition leaders, officers and scientists all came from a class of people who kept expedition diaries and wrote detailed letters home, thus making it comparatively easy for autobiographies and subsequent biographies to be written. However many of the true heroes of the early 20th century exploration came from the navy and merchant seamen, who did not always keep personal records, and coupled with the political climate in the newly established Irish free state that made it very unwise for any Irishman to declare that he had been in the pay of the British Navy. Reading of the different lives of the nearly forgotten seamen, who achieved so much, in this first class book has been an extremely satisfying experience. I have great admiration of Michael Smith in how he modestly identifies these great and humble men and then doggedly researches their lives from often quite difficult to access material. It makes for an enriching read.
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