The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Hero of the Great Age of Polar Exploration | 
 enlarge | Author: Simon Nasht
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 676759
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 1559708255
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.92
EAN: 9781559708258
ASIN: 1559708255
Publication Date: September 6, 2006
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Product Description
This riveting biography recounts the life of the world's firsttruly modern explorer, a life of unrelenting adventure and the high dramaof polar exploration. Hubert Wilkins was the most successful explorer inhistory: no one saw with his own eyes more undiscovered land and sea.Largely self-taught, he was a celebrated reporter, pilot, spy, war hero,scientist, and adventurer. He captured in his lens war and famine, cheateddeath repeatedly, met world leaders like Lenin, Mussolini, and King GeorgeV, and circled the globe on a zeppelin. Knighted for being the first personto fly across the North Pole, Wilkins was also the first to fly in theAntarctic, discover land by airplane, and take a submarine under the Arcticice.
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Great book about a great, but forgotten, man. February 10, 2008
Simon Nasht's book is like an icebreaker charting a course through the Antarctic and revealing one of its greatest explorers. It is hard to believe that one person so "aggressively modest" could have done so much with so little. Up until now, few had remembered him. What a pity. Thanks for bringing him back to life. Now, when is the movie coming out?
A blockbuster February 19, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This true account of one man's lifelong exploration
of the polar regions makes history come alive. Yet for some reason Hubert Wilkins amazing exploits have faded from public memory.
This biography about a far-sighted adventurer who understood the importance of polar ice caps on global climate. It is a page turner that deserves a place on every bookshelf,an inspiration to the youth.
Any library interested in adventure biography will welcome this vivid account. February 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
THE LAST EXPLORER: HUBERT WILKINS, HERO OF THE GREAT AGE OF POLAR EXPLORATION tells of the most successful explorer in history: a self-taught farm boy from the Australian outback who became a cameraman, reporter, pilot, spy and adventurer. His surveys were captured on camera, he helped map the Canadian Arctic, and his amazing life has only not received much in-depth coverage in past because he avoided publicity. Author Simon Nasht discovered Wilkins' journals, records and photos and used them to recreate his life and achievements: any library interested in adventure biography will welcome this vivid account.
The Greatest Unknown March 31, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The fact the Sir George Hubert Wilkins is a virtual unknown against the supposed greatness of his contemporaries, Hurley and Mawson, is due mainly to his "aggressive modesty".
Now Australians are rediscovering this truly remarkable man's life and Simon Nasht does him an immensely great service.
Simply a 'must-read'!
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