A lively biography of the pioneering photographer, aviator and polar explorer, decorated in WWI, first to fly across the Arctic, first aviator in the Antarctic, first to explore the Arctic by submarine. One of the most famous men of his day, Wilkins was buried at sea at the North Pole by the U.S. Navy in 1958. He was born on a sheep farm in South Australia in 1888.  (ANT238, $27.50)