The White Darkness

Extreme. Many of us know the story of Ernest Shackleton and his journeys around the South Pole. David Grann tells the story of a Shackleton admirer, Henry Worsley, in a book titled, The White Darkness. Worsley felt connected to Shackleton throughout his life, in part because he was related to someone who went to the South Pole with Shackleton. After retiring from the British army, Worsley teamed up with two other descendants of the Shackleton crew and went off to the South Pole in 2008. Still not satisfied with his obsession, Worsley returned in 2015 to walk alone across Antarctica. I read this book on cold days in Chicago and appreciated in a very small way the extremes that Worley faced on his journeys. Grann is a great writer and presented this story earlier in The New Yorker. I was as captivated on my second reading as I was on the first, at least as engaged as one can be in the warmth of one’s home. Rating: Four-star (I like it) Click here to purchase The White Darkness from amazon.com.