The Illustrated Sir Hubert Wilkins by Jeff K Maynard

Polar explorer, pioneer aviator and Anzac photographer. Sir Hubert Wilkins always carried a camera. For the first time, the extraordinary Sir Hubert Wilkins Photographs are being published in a collectible limited edition book from Netfield Publishing.

Revealing Sir George Hubert Wilkins like never before. See this amazing Australian adventurer in a completely new light through his unpublished photographs, private documents and personal artefacts. Stunning hand-coloured glass lantern slides of the first aerial photographs of Antarctica.

Unpublished records and photographs from Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Quest Expedition. Wilkins’ photographs of Anzacs at the Western Front in WWI. Anzac Cove and Gallipoli. The first photographs ever taken under the Arctic ice, from the Nautilus submarine on Wilkins’ 1931 submarine expedition. The Graf Zeppelin around-the-world flight in 1929. The Australian Outback in the 1920s. The first flight over the Arctic Ocean. Sir Hubert Wilkins’ medals, equipment, awards and personal items. From his birthplace at the Wilkins Homestead in South Australia in 1888, until his ashes were taken by US Nuclear Submarine to the North Pole in 1959, Sir George Hubert Wilkins lived an incredible life.

Now it is revealed in this stunning limited edition book written by the acknowledged world expert on Sir Hubert Wilkins, Jeff Maynard. And with an introduction by Dick Smith AC.

“The author, who all of us who venture into the Wilkins world owe most, is Jeff Maynard.” – Peter Fitzsimons author of The Incredible Life of Sir Hubert Wilkins.

“I am pleased to introduce this book, which both showcases such remarkable photography, and illuminates the astonishing life of Sir Hubert Wilkins.” – Dick Smith AC

“I consider Jeff Maynard to be the foremost authority on Sir Hubert Wilkins and have relied on his expertise in guiding other researchers.” – Laura Kissel, Polar Curator, Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center Archival Program.

Whatever you have previously thought about Sir Hubert Wilkins will be changed forever when you read The Illustrated Sir Hubert Wilkins by Jeff Maynard from Netfield Publishing.

ANZEC Member - Jeff K. Maynard

Jeff Maynard

is an author and documentary-maker passionate about recording little known aspects of Australia’s history. He commenced diving in 1987 and shortly after began researching the history of diving. In 1992 he became interested in the story of the recovery of eight tons of gold from the ‘RMS Niagara’ during World War Two. He located the surviving members of the crew and the lost film that was taken during the salvage. His books on diving history include ‘Niagara’s Gold’ and ‘Divers in Time’. A former President of the Historical Diving Society – Australia Pacific, Jeff edits the Society’s quarterly magazine, ‘Classic Diver’. Jeff has also spent many years researching and locating the lost records of Australian polar explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins. He is the author ‘Wings of Ice’ and 'The Unseen Anzac'. Jeff's third book on Sir Hubert Wilkins, 'Crossing Antarctica - The Wyatt Earp Story' will be published in 2018.

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