baronessekat | 2019 reading challenge: Two books that share the same title (book 1)

The White Darkness by David Grann

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the third book I've read by David Grann and sadly my least favorite. But I may be biased as I was deeply moved by the book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI and found the adventure of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon compelling, so I may have been unconsciously comparing this book to them.
That's not to say that this book was bad. But I was not as riveted.

This is the telling of Henry Worsley, a British army officer who had been obsessed with the life of Antarctica explorer Ernest Shackleton and set out to follow in his hero's footsteps... literally. He did it once with a group and once solo.

The story was one that makes you think on what it takes to have a dream and what you are willing to do to achieve it.

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