Name: The White Darkness
SKU: 50994325
Price: 763.00 TWD
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Author: Grann, David
ISBN: 9780385544573

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Grann

Publisher

Bantam Dell

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

160

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9780385544573

Edition No.

Synopsis "The White Darkness "

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, lavishly illustrated with color photographsHenry 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 both a gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity.

David Grann

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David Grann (New York, 1967) is a writer and journalist at The New Yorker. His stories have appeared in various anthologies, including The Best American Crime Writing of 2004, 2005, and 2009; and The Best American Sports Writing of 2003 and 2006. A finalist in 2005 for the Michael Kelly Award for his "courageous pursuit and expression of the truth", Grann has also contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, among other publications. His first novel, Z, the lost city (Literatura Random House, 2017) was a number one bestseller according to The New York Times, has been translated into more than 25 languages, and has been made into a major film. Literatura Random House has also published The Old Man and the Gun, which was adapted into a film starring Robert Redford.

His latest book, Killers of the Flower Moon, has been a bestseller by The New York Times and considered by the American press as one of the best books of 2017. It has also been awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Fact Crime, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Martin Scorsese and Leonardo Di Caprio are preparing its film adaptation.

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