The White Darkness - David Grann
Category: Autobiography & Biographies
Tags: Autobiography & Biographies, History, Adults
Publisher: Books on Tape Release date: October 30, 2018 Duration: 02:28:37, 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., Worsley felt an overpowering connection to those expeditions. He was related to one of Shackletons men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled his military command on Shackletons legendary skills and was determined to measure his own powers of endurance against them. He would succeed where Shackleton had failed, in the most brutal landscape in th
