In Shackleton's Footsteps
A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic
$27.60
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2026
Summary
An anniversary edition of the modern classic of adventure writing, in which Shackleton’s descendants take on the expedition that defeated him in the most extreme Antarctic challenge known to man, now with a new introduction by Bear Grylls.
A MODERN CLASSIC WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM BEAR GRYLLS
“Courage and spirit oozes from these pages” - Bear Grylls
On the 29th of October 1908, a party of four men, led by Ernest Shackleton, set out to be the first …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753562970 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753562979 |
| Author: | Henry Worsley |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Virgin Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 197g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
An honest, gripping and intensely personal account of one man’s quest to tackle the coldest, toughest, most desolate journey on earth. Henry is a man moulded in Shackleton’s image and courage and spirit oozes from these pages. * Bear Grylls *
Thrillingly detailed * The Guardian *
In an era where most of the world is explored and adventurous journeys have become more commonplace, it still takes a certain type of person to walk the 900 miles over 66 days, in Antarctic weather conditions, to fulfil a genetic ambition * Independent *
A century after the pioneering Anglo-Irish explorer was forced to turn back just 97 miles from his goal, the modern-day adventurers achieved what he could not * Telegraph *
Henry Worsley
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Worsley, MBE (4 October 1960 - 24 January 2016) was an explorer and British Army officer. A distant relative of Ernest Shackleton, in 2008 he led an expedition through the Transantarctic Mountains to the South Pole to commemorate the centenary of Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition. He returned to the Antarctic in 2011, leading a team of six in retracing Roald Amundsen’s successful 870-mile journey in 1912 to the South Pole, marking its centenary. Worsley died in 2016 while attempting to complete the first solo and unaided crossing of the Antarctic.
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