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Captain Francis Crozier: Last Man Standing? | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Smith
Publisher: The Collins Press
Category: Book
List Price: £17.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 190733
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 242
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 1905172095
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781905172092
ASIN: 1905172095
Publication Date: June 1, 2006
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Usual great style from Polar writer March 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A tiny museum in Castletownbere gave me an tantilising introduction to Tom Crean, and an Amazon search then introduced me to Michael Smith and The Unsung Hero. I just loved it - a wonderful heoric tale by a very skilled author, and having fallen madly in love with Tom Crean I have now read just about everything there is on Antartic Exploration at the turn of the Century. This book is of the period half a century earlier and is written in the same wonderful style, where Michael Smith brings into your life a little known and probably even less admired hero. The book covers Crozier's many travels into both the Artic and Antartic, and takes us to the time when the latter was being explored for the first time, and most interesting, getting named. So those coves and coasts and mountains - Ross Shelf, Cape Crozier, Mount Terror and Mount Erebus etc, all come from Croziers era. Also, and so disappointingly, came all those bad habits that plagued the later explorations - like dependancy on man hauling, not using locally caught game, using canvas tents etc.
This is just a great book - just one small criticism - the picture reproduction is lousy and it desperately needs a couple of detailed maps at the beginning, so you can keep referring back, rather than try and find the rather undetailed ones hidden in the text.
Mr Smith - I've read both your Tom Crean books - please find another 'unsung hero' for us!
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