Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer
Born Adventurer is the first biography of one of the most fascinating explorers of the Heroic Age of British and Commonwealth Antarctic exploration. Born into an affluent middle-class family, Bickerton decided to reject his comfortable surroundings and to embark, instead, upon an astonishingly colou...
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ftulincoln:oai:eprints.lincoln.ac.uk:23501 2023-05-15T13:44:15+02:00 Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer Haddelsey, Stephen 2005-09-01 https://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/23501/ unknown Sutton Publishing Haddelsey, Stephen (2005) Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer. Sutton Publishing, Stroud. ISBN 9780750940122 V145 Modern History 1900-1919 V144 Modern History 1800-1899 V146 Modern History 1920-1949 Book or Monograph NonPeerReviewed 2005 ftulincoln 2022-03-02T20:05:46Z Born Adventurer is the first biography of one of the most fascinating explorers of the Heroic Age of British and Commonwealth Antarctic exploration. Born into an affluent middle-class family, Bickerton decided to reject his comfortable surroundings and to embark, instead, upon an astonishingly colourful career during which he not only carried the first aeroplane to Antarctica but also hunted for pirate gold on Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", served as a frontline trenches officer and a member of one of the RFC's elite squadrons during the First World War, travelled from Cape to Cairo during the golden age of the African safari and finally worked as a screenwriter and editor at Shepperton Studios. Text Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica University of Lincoln: Lincoln Repository Antarctic Treasure Island ENVELOPE(-115.136,-115.136,64.501,64.501) Bickerton ENVELOPE(137.433,137.433,-66.367,-66.367) |
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Born Adventurer is the first biography of one of the most fascinating explorers of the Heroic Age of British and Commonwealth Antarctic exploration. Born into an affluent middle-class family, Bickerton decided to reject his comfortable surroundings and to embark, instead, upon an astonishingly colourful career during which he not only carried the first aeroplane to Antarctica but also hunted for pirate gold on Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island", served as a frontline trenches officer and a member of one of the RFC's elite squadrons during the First World War, travelled from Cape to Cairo during the golden age of the African safari and finally worked as a screenwriter and editor at Shepperton Studios. |
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Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer |
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Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer |
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Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer |
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Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer |
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Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer |
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born adventurer: the life of frank bickerton, antarctic pioneer |
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ENVELOPE(-115.136,-115.136,64.501,64.501) ENVELOPE(137.433,137.433,-66.367,-66.367) |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica |
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Haddelsey, Stephen (2005) Born adventurer: the life of Frank Bickerton, Antarctic pioneer. Sutton Publishing, Stroud. ISBN 9780750940122 |
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