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Beau Riffenburgh is a historian specialising in exploration, particularly that of the Antarctic, the Arctic and Africa, and the author of Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition: The Voyage of Nimrod, and The Myth of the Explorer. A native of California, he earned his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and is currently on the staff at the Scott Polar Research Institute, where he is the editor of the Encyclopedia of the Antarctic and the journal Polar Record. |
