In the decade before the 1920's, the newspapers and the public were mesmerized with the exploits of Robert Scott, Ernest Shackelton, Roald Ammundson and Robert Peary. Their expeditions to the North and South polar caps fueled a generation of dreamers and schemers. In the 1920's, one such seasoned explorer emerged from the pack that could not be touched by the likes of the aforementioned. Who was that brave soul? He, who risked life and limb for the sake of getting a better membership rate with the Royal South Seas Explorers Union.

Who, you ask?

None other than Dr Walter E Traprock!

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Dr Traprock was thrust onto the world stage as the man who pricked the South Sea Bubble through his epochal discovery of the now firmly established Fatu-liva bird and it's square egg. The narrative of this exploit has been rendered indelible through the publication of "The Cruise of the Kawa", the first book in his well known triliogy about the surf, the snow and the sand.

From an obsure and dubious origin Dr Traprock rose to become at naturalist who was quite in a class by himself, and his scientific
achievements have proved again that truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

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