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The white darkness / David Grann.

Grann, David, (author.).

Summary:

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 Shackleton's men, Frank Worsley, and spent a fortune collecting artifacts from their epic treks across the continent. He modeled 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 the most brutal landscape in the world. 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." Illustrated with more than fifty stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, "The White Darkness" is a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385544573
  • ISBN: 038554457X
  • Physical Description: 146 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 19 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2018]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"This work originally appeared in The New Yorker on February 12 and 19, 2018" -- Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:
Mortal danger -- The lure of little voices -- Hell is a cold place -- A spine of steel -- Plan of attack -- Get wet and you die -- The infinite beyond.
Subject: Worsley, Henry.
Explorers > Great Britain > Biography.
Snow.
Survival.
South Pole.
Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > British.
Genre: Biographies.

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Cleveland County Main Library B WORSLEY (Text) 22281500139424 Adult Nonfiction Checked out 05/13/2025
Beaufort Main B WORSLEY (Text) 34208203779375 Adult Biography Available -
Cliffdale Library B WORSLEY (Text) 31781065134544 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Columbus Library B WORSLEY (Text) 31250200069949 Adult Biography Available -
Etowah Branch 919.89 G (Text) 33258008519311 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Fairmont Public Library 919.8904 GRANN (Text) 34510000599736 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Farmville Public Library 919.89 GRA (Text) 23900000022941 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Harnett County Main Library B WORSLEY Gra (Text) 33630004580093 Adult Biography Available -
Haywood County Main Library 919.89 Grann (Text) 33115007664107 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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