Author: David Grann. Published by Doubleday, New York, USA, 2018. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book & Dust Jacket. Size: 7.25 x 6 inch, 142 pages.
THE WHITE DARKNESS is a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity. Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys.
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honor and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the nineteenth-century polar explorer, 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 one of the greatest leaders in history.
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 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.
David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today.
ISBN: 9780385544573
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