Angie Butler Interview: Who was Frank Wild?

Angie Butler's book The Quest for Frank Wild is published today, August 1st. It charts her seven-year journey to research the final years of the life of Frank Wild (1873-1939) in South Africa and her incredible discovery of his ashes in Johannesburg.

On 20th November 2011, Frank Wild's great niece and nephew and Ernest Shackleton's granddaughter, Alexandra Shackleton, will depart from Ushuaia on a commemorative expedition to rebury Wild's ashes alongside Shackleton in South Georgia.

The Quest for Frank Wild also includes Wild's original memoirs covering his four expeditions to Antarctica as Sir Ernest Shackleton's lieutenant, which are published here for the first time.

Why were Frank Wild's memoirs never published? Why was he not laid to rest in South Georgia alongside Shackleton as he had requested, and why did nobody know where he was buried?

In this interview, Kathryn Hadley asks Angie Butler, first of all: why is Frank Wild so little known?

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