The White Darkness

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<b>‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’ </b>JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's <i>The Lost City of Z</i><br><b>‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ </b><i>Sunday Times </i>on <i>The Lost City of Z</i><br><b>‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’ </b><i>Daily Telegraph </i>on <i>The Lost City of Z</i><br><br><b>DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK<br><br> One man's perilous quest to cross Antarctica in the footsteps of Shackleton.<br><br> Henry Worsley</b> was a devoted husband and father and <b>a decorated British special forces officer</b> who believed in honour and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing <b>Ernest Shackleton, the 20th-century polar explorer</b>, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole and later sought to cross Antarctica on foot. Shackleton never completed his journeys, but he repeatedly rescued his men from certain death and emerged as <b>one of the greatest leaders in history</b>.<br><br> Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artefacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modelled his military command on Shackleton's legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in <b>the most brutal landscape in the world</b>.<br><br> In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two other descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home he felt compelled to go back. On November 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on <b>his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone</b>.<br><br> David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to b

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781471178023

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Buch

Maße

185 x 147 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Verlag / Hersteller

Simon & Schuster Ltd