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THE INDESTRUCTIBLE TOM CREAN

THE TALE OF AN UNSUNG HERO’S ADVENTURES AT THE SOUTH POLE

AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR JENNIFER THERMES

PUBLISHER WELBECK

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The age of Antarctic exploration in the early part of the 20th century is flush with stories of hardship and heroics from the southernmost point of our planet. Among the most famous explorers, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen earned their stripes on multiple year-long expeditions to the South Pole in an era before reliable mechanisation and telecommunications could take the sting out of exploring the most remote and unexplored continent on Earth. How they prevailed rightly earned them accolades at the time and a place in the history books – though they were far from alone on these expeditions,

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