Finding Endurance (Paperback)
Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End
Darrel Bristow-Bovey
Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human.
Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human.
Tender, heartfelt and lyrical.
Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth
I was held spellbound by this recounting of one of the world's great adventure stories. But beyond the gripping polar ordeal, I was moved to the core by tender insights – into love, home, fathers and sons, and the long game of life – that emerge like veins of bright and dark water through the ice. Bristow-Bovey shares a deep knowledge of his subject with great style – and more than a touch of Shackleton's own verve and heart. An exhilarating read.
A wonderful, thoughtful account of the Endurance expedition and its fabled boss: as Darrel Bristow-Bovey points out in these pages, "We should indeed all be such failures as Shackleton." In weaving in a personal story – his father claimed to have sailed south on Endurance – Bristow-Bovey reveals ways in which "the human heart has space for opposite things". I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
With elegiac considerations of subjects including time, hope, and ice, Finding Endurance is a grace-filled memoir about a father and a resilient Antarctic legend … complemented by beautiful elements of nature writing, biography, and the heroics of polar exploration … a tender tribute to family.
