| Description |
xiv, 401 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm |
| Summary |
"Herbert Dyce Murphy was born in 1879 to a wealthy Melbourne family. Rejecting his father's staid plans for him, he instead signed on to a wool clipper as a teenage apprentice, then went whaling in the Arctic. This was followed by a stint at Oxford University, where he so convincingly played a woman on stage that British Intelligence recruited him to spy, in drag, on the Continent, pre-World War I. ... In 1911 Murphy sailed to the Antarctic with the Mawson expedition"--Book cover |
| Notes |
Includes references to Patrick White and his novel 'The Twyborn Affair', and also to E. Phillips Fox |
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Large proportion of the book is set in Antarctica on the 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Dr. Douglas Mawson |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 397-401 |
| Subject |
Murphy, Herbert Dyce, 1879-1971.
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| SUBJECT |
Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50073914
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| Subject |
Explorers -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography.
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Spies -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
Antarctic Regions -- Discovery and exploration http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85005493 -- Australian
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2001431103 |
| ISBN |
1740510240 |
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