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A world-renowned explorer and prolific writer turns his attention to Ernest Shackleton, a giant of the heroic age of polar exploration, with entirely satisfying results...The definitive biography of a legendary adventurer. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Fiennes's admiration shines through...A thorough record of Shackleton's successes and failures. -- Publishers Weekly Full of awe-inspiring details of hardship, resolve, and weather that defies belief, told by someone of unique authority. No one is more tailor-made to tell [this] story than Sir Ranulph Fiennes. -- Newsday On a mission that involved an 800-mile voyage across the uncharted Southern Ocean in a lifeboat caulked with seal blood...Fiennes calls it 'a masterclass in disaster management'...It's a tremendous story. -- Wall Street Journal Shackleton, as Fiennes shows, was an Everyman hero during an age of Antarctic exploration...his story remains as exceptional and astounding today...This book's...appeal lies in its perspective: reading about an extreme polar superstar from the viewpoint of another....a must read. -- New York Times

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Ranulph Fiennes is the only man alive ever to have traveled around the Earth's circumpolar surface--and his Arctic and Antarctic expeditions give him a unique perspective on the life of Shackleton. His record-breaking expeditions include travel by riverboat, hovercraft, man-haul sledge, skidoo, Land Rover, and skis. When not on one of his adventures, he lives in Britain. Jonathan Keeble, winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards, combines his audio work with a busy theater and television career. He has been featured in over six hundred radio plays for the BBC, appearing in everything from Shakespeare and Sherlock Holmes to Doctor Who and The Archers, in which he played the evil Owen. As an Earphones Award-winning narrator, he is in high demand for his voice work. He has recorded over two hundred audiobooks.

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