Michael Smith (3) (1946–)
Autor(a) de An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor
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About the Author
Michael Smith has been a business and political journalist in Britain for thirty years, working for national newspapers such as the Guardian and The Observer. Smith's fascination with Tom Crean began when, as a schoolboy, he read of Scott's ill-fated final expedition. He decided to write his mostrar mais biography when he met Teddy Evans' granddaughter. "I'm only here because of Tom Crean," she told him. Smith now writes full-time on polar history and currently lives in London mostrar menos
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Smith, Mick
- Data de nascimento
- 1946
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Michael Smith is an author and journalist who specialises in the history of Polar exploration. He has written books on Polar history for adult audiences and children, lectured extensively and contributed to a wide range of television and radio programmes, newspapers, magazines and websites.
Michael’s first book, An Unsung Hero – Tom Crean Antarctic Survivor (2000) was short-listed for the Banff Mountain Book Festival 2002. His other books are: I Am Just Going Outside – Captain Oates (2002); Sir James Wordie – Polar Crusader (2004); Captain Francis Crozier – Last Man Standing? (2006); Tom Crean – An Illustrated Life (2006) was shortlisted for the Irish Published Book of the Year 2007. He has also written two books for children: Tom Crean – Iceman (2003); Shackleton – The Boss (2004).
Michael is regular public speaker on Polar history and has given talks at many leading venues, including:
MERSEYSIDE MARITIME MUSEUM, Liverpool;
NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM CORNWALL, Falmouth;
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND, Dublin;
QUEENS UNIVERSITY, Belfast;
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, London;
SCOTT POLAR RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Cambridge;
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, Cork.
Michael is a regular visitor to schools and libraries and has frequently participated in the annual Children's Book Festival, Ireland and other events aimed at younger readers.
Michael began writing books in the late 1990s after more than 30 years as an award-winning journalist covering business and political issues. His posts included: Industrial Editor and Political Correspondent, The Guardian; City Editor, Evening Standard; Business Editor, The Observer.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 432
- Popularidade
- #56,591
- Avaliação
- 4.2
- Críticas
- 11
- ISBN
- 442
- Línguas
- 7
That said. I wanted to like this more given my current hyper fixation and the fun anecdotes from the JCR exploration era, but the heavy handed, speculative "Crozier was pining after Sofia Cracroft" thesis (that the book even concludes with) falls flat.
There also aren't nearly as many citations as there should be in such a biography and I have no idea what the sources are for many of the stories, as delightful as some of them are.
I found the frequent jabs at weight and hairlines unnecessary.
I was also disappointed that the updated chapters in this revised edition didn't focus nearly as much on the discovery of the ships as I was expecting.
So, a mixed bag here. Should you have it in your polar library? Given the dearth of Crozier bios, I would say yes; I only wish I could be more enthusiastic.… (mais)