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Book Synopsis‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’ JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's
The Lost City of Z‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times on
The Lost City of Z‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones’ Daily Telegraph on
The Lost City of ZDAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK
One man's perilous quest to cross Antarctica in the footsteps of Shackleton.
Henry Worsley was a devoted husband and father and
a decorated British special forces officer who believed in honour and sacrifice. He was also a man obsessed. He spent his life idolizing
Ernest Shackleton, the 20th-century polar explorer, who tried to become the first person to reach the South Pole and later sought to cross
Trade Review‘Will
inspire some, just as it frightens others… the story of what addiction can do to you: addiction to a place, to suffering and to the
heroic idea of what it meant to be British’ * Evening Standard *
'History tends to favour Captain Scott's polar legend, but Worsley preferred Shackleton... Worsley makes it to Shackleton's mark and the pole beyond, then returns twice more, including an attempted solo crossing...
For a lesson in tenacity, it's up there' * Strong Words magazine *
‘Grann’s ability and eye for detail have crafted
a fine and moving tale’ * Explorers Web *
‘Grann is a
New Yorker staff writer to be reckoned with...
Tones of Mailer and Hemingway gust through the book as Grann tells the story of his hero… The greatness of Worsley’s courage, and the descriptions of his family and friends, are
truly moving’ * The Spectator *
‘Worsley had
immense courage, a lovable, almost boyish sense of adventure, and his family felt huge pride in him, as did the British nation’ * Daily Mail *
