Looking back at leadership in the Heroic Age

• Main Author: McTurk, Lesley
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Shackleton; Charcot; Gerlache; Drygalski; Nordenskjöld; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14148

This paper looks at leadership characteristics of the Heroic Age explorers Gerlache, Drygalski, Nordenskjöld, Charcot, Filchner, Mawson and the better known Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen. The creation of heroic images and how these change over time is explored and the way different cultural and pol...