Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer: The life of Herbert Dyce Murphy,the most extraordinary Australian you've never heard of by Heather Rossiter

Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer: The life of Herbert Dyce Murphy,the most extraordinary Australian you've never heard of

Heather Rossiter

401 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography informative reflective slow-paced
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Rejecting his father’s traditional plans for him, he signed on to a wool clipper as a teenage apprentice, and ended up on whaling ships in the Arctic. It was then on to Oxford University in the UK, where he so convincingly played a woman on stage ...

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