- Biography, Explorers, British, Discovery and exploration
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.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- David Grann
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Limited, Random House Audio, Doubleday
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385544573
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