Ernest Shackleton

The Shackleton School is pleased to confirm that Dr Edward J Larsson will lecture at this years Shackleton School. He is the Professor of History and holds the Hugh & Hazel Darling Chair in Law at Pepperdine University. His many books include 'Summer for the Gods - The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in History: Evolutions Workshop: God and Science on the Galapago's Islands and he has just published 'An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science.

His lecture in Athy is titled - 'Did Shackleton care about Science?