At the sign of the penguins – £46,000

Before embarking on his 1907-09 expedition to the Antarctic, Ernest Shackleton sent Ernest Joyce and Frank Wild on a crash course in printing and had a press and associated materials loaded onto the Nimrod.

Determined to keep his men occupied during the long polar night, he was already planning what has be…

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