BBC Radio 4 – Excess Baggage

Sandi talks to Antarctic explorer specialist, Angie Butler “Angie loves Antarctica so much she set about recovering the ashes of a forgotten Edwardian Polar explorer and to set the record straight about Shackleton’s right-hand man”

The Yorkshire Post

Frank Wild was Sir Ernest Shackleton’s right-hand man, but his name has faded from view. Writer Angie Butler spent seven years working to put that right.

The Independent

Matilda Battersby reviews “The Quest for Frank Wild” by Angie Butler. The book charts Butler’s personal quest to unravel the story of the last sixteen years of Wild’s life. He had spent them in South Africa in penury and obscurity, so much so that years after his death in 1939 the location of his burial was unknown.

Falkland Islands News Network

After Angie Butler’s discovery of Wild’s ashes in a forgotten chapel in South Africa. Ice Tracks Expedition is taking the Edwardian Explorer Frank Wild to be buried next to Shackleton in the Grytviken cemetery, South Georgia on a commemorative expedition.

History Today

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.

ANARE Club, Australia

The ANARE reviwes Angie Butler new realese. “The Quest for Frank Wild” tells the gripping story of Angie Butler’s determination to unravel the truth of the final years of Frank Wild, one of the greatest British Edwardian Polar explorers of all time.

Lady Adventurer UK

This portrayal of a forgotten hero would have remained unchallenged if it hadn’t been for Angie Butler who has spent the last seven years on an odyssey to discover the truth whilst writing The Quest for Frank Wild. Butler and Ice Tracks Expeditions are taking the ashes to his final resting place on a commemorative expedition to Antarctica.

Wanderlust UK

The World According to Angie Butler, author of The Quest for Frank Wild gives us an icy perspective on the world of travel. Co-owner and PR of Ice Tracks Expedition she is planning a commemorative voyage to take Wild ashes to his final resting place in South Georgia.

The Quest for Frank Wild

BOOK LAUNCH 1st AUGUST 2011. The Quest for Frank Wild by Angie Butler tells the gripping story of Angie Butler’s determination to unravel the truth of the final years of Frank Wild, one of the greatest British Edwardian Polar explorers of all time.

Antarctic Circle Org UK – Antarctic Book Notes

The Quest for Frank Wild by Angie Butler marks the first time the original memoirs have been published (as written by Wild covering four expeditions) and unveils the later life story of the hero’s final years in South Africa. Angie, journalist and co-founder of Polar adventure travel company, Ice Tracks Expeditions, announces her breakthrough discovery of Wild’s ashes in Johannesburg and the explorer’s last wish to be buried in South Georgia beside Shackleton. Exactly ninety years since their last voyage together, Wild and Shackleton will finally be reunited thanks to a commemorative expedition.

Antarctic Circle Org UK – Antarctic Art Notes

Sculptor , writer, and company owner Angie Butler has made Frank Wild’s relief plaque in bronze. Along with Ice Tracks Expeditions, Angie has sailed south and taken the plaque to South Georgia via the Falkland Islands and Antarctica.

James Caird Society

A plaque in honour of Commander Frank Wild has been erected in the church at Grytviken, South Georgia to commemorate the veteran of five Antarctic eexpeditions and Shackleton’s most trusted lieutenant.

Polar Publishing

The Unique and Historic Polar Medal to Commander Frank Wild, Veteran of Five Heroic Age Antarctic Expeditions. Wild’s unique Polar Medal with clasps Antarctic 1902–04, Antarctic 1907–09, Antarctic 1912–14 and Antarctic 1914–16 was issued officially engraved: A.B. F. WILD. “DISCOVERY”, only two four-clasp Polar Medals have ever been issued.