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    The White Darkness

    Written by David Grann

    Narrated by Will Patton

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    About this audiobook

    By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic

    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." The White Darkness is both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity.

    Editor's Note

    Destined & doomed…

    David Grann loves chronicling destined and doomed explorers as they try to discover the secrets of Earth’s greatest unknowns. “The White Darkness,” which follows Henry Worsley’s solo expedition through the Antarctic, is reminiscent of Grann’s previous hit “The Lost City of Z.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781984840165
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    The White Darkness
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    David Grann

    David Grann is the author of the Number One international bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, THE LOST CITY OF Z and THE WAGER. KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON was shortlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction and won an Edgar Allan Poe Award. He is also the author of THE WHITE DARKNESS and the collection THE DEVIL AND SHERLOCK HOLMES. Grann’s storytelling has garnered several honours including a George Polk Award. He lives with his wife and children in Westchester County, New York.

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    • 5/5
      Will Patton reads David Grann beautifully. Grann is a master storyteller. The audio book versions of his works are uniformly well done. He has become a favorite author of mine.
    • 3/5
      This book wasn't quite what I expected, and not in a good way. It was very short. The audiobook is only about 2hrs long, which is good for giving a taste of what it's like to be an Antarctic explorer, but doesn't really give you too many details and facts. People like me are left wanting more from this book. I don't regret my time with this book at all. I did learn about some real people that I didn't know existed both in the distant past and the near present. But again, I was left wanting more.