This book - Tom Crean, The Brave Explorer by John & Fatti Burke - is part of the Little Library series from Gill Books 

Discover the brave explorer that was Tom Crean! 

Tom was one of ten children who grew up on a farm near Anascaul in County Kerry. He loved adventure so much that, at the age of fifteen, he ran away to join the British Navy and sail around the world. While his ship was moored in New Zealand, Tom met Captain Robert Scott. Scott's dream was to be the first person ever to reach the South Pole and he asked Tom to join his crew. 

And so Tom's epic adventures began..