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Leather boots, two types, designed by Shackleton and worn during the Endurance expedi

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Expedition: Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Author: Not applicable
Date of article: 1914 - 1916

Reference number: N: 88a-b

The boots are most likely those worn by James Mann Wordie during Shackleton's Endurance Expedition. Wordie was geologist aboard Endurance and later Master of St Johns College, Cambridge, and Chairman of the Trustees at the Scott Polar Research Institute (1937-55)

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Leather boots, two types, designed by Shackleton and worn during the Endurance expedi

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