The American on the Endurance: Ice, Sea, and Terra Firma Adventures of William L. Bakewell.

Bakewell, William L. [Edited by Mary Elizabeth Rajala.] Munising, MI: Dukes Hall Publishing, 2004.
  • 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (Shackleton on Endurance).
  • Antarctic Reading: Expeditions
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Homespun memoir of a footloose and feckless wanderer from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, who happened to be in Buenos Aires in 1914 when Shackleton was looking for an able bodied seaman and took Bakewell on for the voyage.