Tom Crean Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions

Michael Smith has been a business and political journalist in Britain for thirty years, working for national newspapers such as the Guardian and The Observer. Smith's fascination with Tom Crean began when, as a schoolboy, he read of Scott's ill-fated final expedition. He decided to write his biography when he met Teddy Evans' granddaughter. "I'm only here because of Tom Crean," she told him. Smith now writes full-time on polar history and currently lives in LondonSmith, Michael is the author of 'Tom Crean Unsung Hero of the Scott and Shackleton Antarctic Expeditions', published 2002 under ISBN 9780898868708 and ISBN 089886870X.