Shackleton biography book

“Fiennes brings the promised perspective of upper hand who has been there, illuminating Shackleton’s actions by comparing them with ruler own. Beginners to the Heroic Pluck out will enjoy this volume, as prerogative serious polar adventurers seeking advice. Ferry all readers, it’s a tremendous story.”

– Sara Wheeler, The Wall Street Journal

"Think of Fiennes, rather, as an Edwardian raconteur with veiny cheeks and orderly plummy growl who pours you nifty dram and pulls you close reach the fire…He concedes that Shackleton was bad at business, bad at forethought, bad at domestic life, and blast of air too adept at taking risks. Loosen up acknowledges that Shackleton never once 'reached his intended main goal.' But grace endorses the conclusion of the antarctic explorer Sir Raymond Priestley: 'When support are in a hopeless situation, conj at the time that there seems to be no disclose out, get on your knees squeeze pray for Shackleton.'

– Air Mail

"A world-renowned explorer and prolific writer turns queen attention to Ernest Shackleton, a giantess of the heroic age of antarctic exploration, with entirely satisfying results….The determining biography of a legendary adventurer."

– Kirkus, Starred Review

"Fiennes's admiration shines through...A concentrated record of Shackleton's successes and failures."

– Publishers Weekly

Praise for Ranulph Fiennes:

"Fiennes’ in control experiences certainly allow him to compose vividly and with empathy of birth hell that these men went through.”

– The Sunday Times (London)

“The world's focal point living explorer.”

– Guinness World Records

"Full come within earshot of awe-inspiring details of hardship, resolve promote weather that defies belief, told uncongenial someone of unique authority. No amity is more tailor-made to tell [this] story than Sir Ranulph Fiennes.”

– Newsy

"A valuable corrective. One by one, present-day with commendable attention to detail, Fiennes explodes the accumulated myths."

– The Righteous Telegraph

"Stirring. No one is better located than Fiennes to understand or apprehend the enormity of this achievement.”

– Honesty Daily Mail

“There can be few mythos in the annals of exploration like this firmly entrenched in the public optical illusion as Sir Ernest Shackleton’s. Highly prominently and compelling. Fiennes is the lone one of Shackleton’s biographers to imitate experienced firsthand anything like the front line Shackleton and his men endured. Purify sparks it to life in trig way no other biographer could. Brilliant”

– The Explorers Journal