Adventure Biography
The 10 Greatest Adventure Biographies
SHACKLETON BY ROLAND HUNTFORD (1986)
Most readers know the basics from Caroline Alexander's The Endurance: When Antarctic ice trapped his ship in 1915, Ernest Shackleton led his 27-man crew on an epic two-year journey of survival. But in this massive 774-page work, written more than a decade before Alexander's bestseller, Roland Huntford goes beyond the 1914–16 expedition to paint Shackleton as an adventure hustler, an unfaithful husband, and a heavy drinker who was often broke and always chasing the next big score. Huntford's Shackleton is a grand adventurer but not the sharpest tool in the shed—rightly remembered for his leadership on the Endurance but, perhaps kindly, not much else.
The 10 Greatest Adventure Biographies
SHACKLETON BY ROLAND HUNTFORD (1986)
Most readers know the basics from Caroline Alexander's The Endurance: When Antarctic ice trapped his ship in 1915, Ernest Shackleton led his 27-man crew on an epic two-year journey of survival. But in this massive 774-page work, written more than a decade before Alexander's bestseller, Roland Huntford goes beyond the 1914–16 expedition to paint Shackleton as an adventure hustler, an unfaithful husband, and a heavy drinker who was often broke and always chasing the next big score. Huntford's Shackleton is a grand adventurer but not the sharpest tool in the shed—rightly remembered for his leadership on the Endurance but, perhaps kindly, not much else.
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