The incredible life of Hubert Wilkins : Australia's greatest explorer / Peter FitzSimons.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xxv, 549 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780733641367; 0733641369Subject(s): Wilkins, George H. (George Hubert), Sir, 1888-1958 | Nautilus (Submarine : SS-73) | Explorers -- Australia -- Biography | Air pilots -- Australia -- Biography | Photographers -- Australia -- Biography | War photographers -- Australia -- Biography | War correspondents -- Biography | Arctic regions -- Aerial exploration -- HistoryGenre/Form: Biographies. Summary: The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived. The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography, then sailing for England and a job producing films with the Gaumont Film Co. Brave and bold, he became a polar expeditioner, a brilliant war photographer, a spy in the Soviet Union, a pioneering aviator-navigator, a death-defying submariner - all while being an explorer and chronicler of the planet and its life forms that would do Vasco da Gama and Sir David Attenborough proud. As a WW1 photographer he was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire, the only Australian photographer in any war to be decorated.
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The extraordinary, must-read story of the brave, bold Hubert Wilkins - Australia's most adventurous explorer, naturalist, photographer, war hero, aviator, spy and daredevil - brought to life by Australia's greatest storyteller. Sir Hubert Wilkins is one of the most remarkable Australians who ever lived. The son of pioneer pastoralists in South Australia, Hubert studied engineering before moving on to photography, then sailing for England and a job producing films with the Gaumont Film Co. Brave and bold, he became a polar expeditioner, a brilliant war photographer, a spy in the Soviet Union, a pioneering aviator-navigator, a death-defying submariner - all while being an explorer and chronicler of the planet and its life forms that would do Vasco da Gama and Sir David Attenborough proud. As a WW1 photographer he was twice awarded the Military Cross for bravery under fire, the only Australian photographer in any war to be decorated.
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