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The White Darkness (in English)
David Grann
Synopsis "The White Darkness (in English)"
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 (Nueva York, 1967) es escritor y periodista en The New Yorker. Sus historias han aparecido en distintas antologías, incluyendo The Best American Crime Writing de 2004, 2005 y 2009; y The Best American Sports Writing de 2003 y 2006. Finalista en 2005 del Michael Kelly Award por su «valiente búsqueda y expresión de la verdad», Grann también ha colaborado con The New York Times Magazine , The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic y The New Republic, entre otras publicaciones. Su primera novela, Z, la ciudad perdida (Literatura Random House, 2017) fue número uno de ventas según The New York Times, ha sido traducida a más de 25 idiomas y ha sido llevada a la gran pantalla. Literatura Random House también ha publicado El viejo y la pistola, en el que se ha basado la película protagonizada por Robert Redford. Su último libro, Los asesinos de la luna, ha sido best seller por The New York Times y considerado por la prensa estadounidense como uno de los mejores libros de 2017. Ha sido galardonado a su vez con Edgar Allan Poe Award al Best Fact Crime, y ha sido finalista del National Book Award. Martin Scorsese y Leonardo Di Caprio están preparando su versión cinematográfica.
