An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor

An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean – Antarctic Survivor

Michael Smith's biography of the Irish seaman who served on three Antarctic expeditions — with Scott twice and Shackleton once — and performed some of the most extraordinary feats of endurance in polar history. Crean walked 35 miles alone across the Ross Ice Shelf to save his companions. Almost nobody knows his name.
Published 2016
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