Notes

Contents: The family -- First voyage -- Pacific command -- On the ice with Shackleton -- To Elephant Island -- The boat crew -- Preparing the boat -- The boat journey -- Over the Island -- New Zealand with Shakleton -- 1917 : the submarine -- Russia -- The Annie & the quest -- Arctic exploration -- London life -- Treasure Island -- Last posts -- The boat -- Appendices (Edward Saunders : the shy ghost writer ; T.H. Orde-Lees & Harry McNeish, Karori companions ; Gordon Burt, a biographical note ; Roderick Carr & the Antarctic Baby aircraft)

This first ever biography of Worsley tell the story of a man who was both master mariner and merry prankster. It tells the full story of his extraordinary life, from childhood in Akaroa, to his apprenticeship at sea.