Frank Hurley carved a path as one of the greatest adventurers of all time. A visionary photographer and film-maker, Hurley journeyed to the farthest corners of the earth, capturing images of people and places few had ever seen. Time and again he risked his life, in both peace and war, to take pictures that would astonish the world.

Claiming to have travelled a million miles in his lifetime, Hurley traversed every continent. Made four perilous expeditions to Antarctica, sharing a hut with Douglas Mawson, a tent with Ernest Shackleton. He drove across Australia with Francis Birtles in 1914, he flew with Ross and Keith Smith. He ventured deep into the uncharted jungles of New Guinea and Java, where few Europeans had dared to tread.

Hurley stood on the front lines of history, capturing some of the most dramatic footage of WWI & WWII. He survived a plane crash in Athens during a world-record flight attempt, shot at by Germans, and once rescued from the belly of a dead whale. As a cinematographer, he helped create some of Australia's most iconic early action films, including the documentary Home of the Blizzard, and the epic Forty Thousand Horsemen. Foreword by Hurley's granddaughter, Toni Hurley.