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ISBN
9780733622427
UPC
9780733622427
Book Title
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia's Unknown Hero
Publisher
Hachette Australia
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
199mm
Author
Simon Nasht
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Geography & Geosciences
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
330g
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Hubert Wilkins was truly the last - and one of the greatest - explorers. And much more than that. Born in South Australia, he spent much of his life outside the country - but always remained an Australian. He travelled through every continent and was a pioneer of aviation. He survived crashes and disasters, firing squads and sabotage, living long enough to be honoured by kings, presidents and dictators. He was a frontline photographer in World War I - and was twice decorated. He took the first ever film of battle and took the first moving images from an aircraft. He was the first man to fly across the Arctic Ocean, the first to fly in the Antarctic - and the first to fly from America to Europe across the then unknown Arctic (the New York Times called this 'the greatest flight in history'). In the 1930s he spent several years travelling in western Queensland and the Northern Territory - where many of his observations and views were ahead of their time. In the later years of his life he did work for the US military and intelligence - and in 1958 was buried at sea at the North Pole by the US Navy.

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Hachette Australia
ISBN-13
9780733622427
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins, Australia's Unknown Hero
Author
Simon Nasht
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Item Height
199mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
330g

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Simon Nasht
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Australia

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  • by 7803holmes
    14 Jun, 2018

    Excellent book. Riveting.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: the_nile

  • by ra28tragic
    08 Sep, 2016

    Love it

    Should be compulsory reading for our school children. Wish I had the movie rites. Demonstrates struggle against adversity, determination, initiative, conviction all of the good traits our future generation should strive for.

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  • by capricorn_cancer
    09 Sep, 2014

    I am so glad I found this book and will never forget Hubert Wilkins!!

    I found this book utterly compelling and am so ashamed that we have not heard about this incredible man. Quoting the blurb on the back cover which says it all, he was 'a war hero, decorated in battle, a pioneer of photography at the battle field during WW1, a writer, spy, scientist an aviator in its fledgling years, a naturalist', 'he was the first man to fly in the Antarctic and the first to navigate a submarine under polar ice'. 'Born and raised in South Australia, Wilkins is one of the greats of history and his achievements in so many fields will never be equalled.' Simon Nasht's book kept me enthralled to the very end and is a book that will be taken from my book shelf and read again and again.

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