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 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.
0 有用 失足青年 2019-10-10 03:10:46
2018年度最佳
1 有用 GANG 2020-01-13 14:19:10
读了The New Yorker版 震撼 优美 鼓舞人心 “First, optimism; second, patience; third, physical endurance; fourth, idealism; fifth and last, courage.”
0 有用 imac 2019-01-02 17:17:57
看的纽约客版。不时读此类著作有益健康。就此成为David Grann粉丝。
1 有用 Jacintta H 2018-12-15 11:13:16
Incredible true story of Henry Worsley and his passion turned obsession of South Pole expeditions wanting to follow his hero, Shackleton’s footsteps. It’s heart-achingly beautiful and inspiring. So ve... Incredible true story of Henry Worsley and his passion turned obsession of South Pole expeditions wanting to follow his hero, Shackleton’s footsteps. It’s heart-achingly beautiful and inspiring. So very well written, short and compact. Strongly recommend. (展开)
1 有用 栞 2020-12-29 03:52:45
在纽约客上读的,短小精悍,写的太好了,真的是美丽而悲伤。一开始读的时候我还不太能对南极探险共情,读到最后很感动,大概多少理解人类一次一次一代又一代失败加失败地去极限的地方,去面对自然,并不是什么要去征服,可能就是一个情怀,即使送了命也在所不惜。就好像英国探险家登山者乔治·马洛里的名言,山就在那里所以去攀登一样,南极就在那里所以吸引一代又一代的人去那个冰天雪地吧。
0 有用 allday2k 2024-02-01 11:50:32 浙江
"He pushed off, and heard a familiar symphony: the poles crunching on the ice......"
0 有用 卡戎 2024-01-30 14:42:59 美国
4.5 流了好多泪
0 有用 徐慢懒 2023-01-07 21:42:22 日本
22年补标,上会被毙。
0 有用 会飞的石头 2022-04-24 16:16:22
纽约客版,看得身上好冷啊……一直挺开心的,后来就。。
0 有用 哥谭花匠safina 2022-04-09 11:32:43
David Grann式八股,异常陈腐的男性英雄主义,比如内心独白中的名人名言,比如“领导”发言缅怀,事迹本身还是动人的