The White Darkness Av David Grann

The White Darkness Av David Grann

Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honour and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 20th-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole and later sought to cross......
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Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honour and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 20th-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.<br/><br/>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 the most brutal landscape in the world.<br/><br/>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 his most perilous quest: to walk across Antarctica alone.<br/><br/>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 50 stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, 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.
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'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z'A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration' Sunday Times on The Lost City of Z'Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones' Daily Telegraph on The Lost City of ZDAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK One man's perilous quest to cross Antarctica in the footsteps of Shackleton. Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honour and sacrifice.He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing Ernest Shackleton, the 20th-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 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 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 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 50 stunning photographs from Worsley's and Shackleton's journeys, 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.Praise for David Grann's Killers of the Flower Moon: 'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil' KATE ATKINSON'A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West' JOHN GRISHAM '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' DAVE EGGERS, New York Times Book Review'An extraordinary story with extraordinary pace and atmosphere' Sunday Times 'A marvel of detective-like research and narrative verve' Financial Times

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Oppdag det gripende universet av The White Darkness Av David Grann

Gå ikke glipp av denne fantastiske boken som tar deg med på en episk reise gjennom de iskalde landskapene i Antarktis. I The White Darkness har David Grann skapt et mesterverk av fortelling og utforskning, hvor vi får et unikt innblikk i Henry Worsleys besettelse for Ernest Shackleton og hans ærefullt farlige ferd over det frosne kontinentet.

En historie om mot, besettelse og ekstrem overlevelse

I denne fengslende boken følger vi Henry Worsley, en decorated British special forces officer, som legger ut på et oppdrag som vil sette både hans fysiske og mentale grenser på prøve. Med Shackleton som sitt idol og forfader til en av hans menn, er Worsleys jakt på å krysse Antarktis ikke bare en reise, men en dypere søken etter ære og avslutning.

  • Fantastiske visuelle detaljer: Boken er rikt illustrert med over 50 fantastiske fotografier fra både Worsleys og Shackleton's reiser, som gir leserne en visuell fest av is og evig snø.
  • En dyptgående analyse: Grann fanger den menneskelige åndens styrke og vilje til å overvinne det umulige, i en fortelling som veksler mellom spenning og følelser.
  • Uforglemmelig karakterer: Worsley er en protagonist som vil minne deg om de største heltene fra eventyrbøkene, men med en moderne vri.

Hvorfor lese The White Darkness?

Enten du er en ivrig eventyrer, eller bare elsker godt fortalt litteratur, vil The White Darkness Av David Grann fenge deg fra første side. Boken er ikke bare en reise i fysikk, men en reise i sjelen. Det er en opplevelse du ikke vil glemme, fylt med dramatikk, lidenskap og en dypere forståelse av hva det vil si å virkelig leve for en drøm.

Er du klar til å ta steget inn i den hvite mørke verden av overlevelse og mot? Grip kopien av The White Darkness i dag, og bli med på et eventyr som strekker seg over tid og rom!

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SpråkEngelsk
SjangerGeografi, Naturvitenskap og teknologi
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