{"product_id":"9781471178023-white-darkness","title":"The White Darkness","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eKillers of the Flower Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with colour photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’  \u003c\/b\u003eJOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's \u003ci\u003eThe Lost City of Z\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eThe Lost City of Z\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Marvellous . An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003eon \u003ci\u003eThe Lost City of Z\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e One man's perilous quest to cross Antarctica in the footsteps of Shackleton.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Henry Worsley\u003c\/b\u003e was a devoted husband and father and \u003cb\u003ea decorated British special forces officer\u003c\/b\u003e who believed in honour and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing \u003cb\u003eErnest Shackleton, the 20th-century polar explorer\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 \u003cb\u003eone of the greatest leaders in history\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003ethe most brutal landscape in the world\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003ehis most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e David Grann tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called \u003cb\u003e‘simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today’.\u003c\/b\u003e Illustrated with \u003cb\u003emore than 50 stunning photographs\u003c\/b\u003e from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, \u003ci\u003eThe White Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for David Grann's\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKillers of the Flower Moon:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice\u003c\/b\u003e’  JON KRAKAUER\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil’ \u003c\/b\u003e KATE ATKINSON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West’\u003c\/b\u003e  JOHN GRISHAM  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Disturbing and riveting.Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true.It will sear your soul’ \u003c\/b\u003e DAVE EGGERS, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘An extraordinary story with extraordinary pace and atmosphere’\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A marvel of detective-like research and narrative verve’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31618608463969,"sku":"9781471178023","price":9.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31795497.jpg?v=1734596456","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781471178023-white-darkness","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}