Finding Endurance

Finding Endurance is beautiful, thrilling, heroic and kind, a ripping yarn and a generous and humane reflection on this business of being human. -- Claire Robertson, author of The Spiral House, winner of the 2014 Sunday Times Fiction Prize Tender, heartfelt and lyrical. -- Petina Gappah, author of Out of Darkness, Shining Light Engaging, absorbing and crammed with marvellous stories, Finding Endurance is a tale about exploring the cold, told with much warmth * Mick Herron * I was held spellbound by this recounting of one of the world's great adventure stories. But beyond the gripping polar ordeal, I was moved to the core by tender insights - into love, home, fathers and sons, and the long game of life - that emerge like veins of bright and dark water through the ice. Bristow-Bovey shares a deep knowledge of his subject with great style - and more than a touch of Shackleton's own verve and heart. An exhilarating read. * Henrietta Rose-Innes, author of Green Lion * A wonderful, thoughtful account of the Endurance expedition and its fabled boss: as Darrel Bristow-Bovey points out in these pages, We should indeed all be such failures as Shackleton. In weaving in a personal story - his father claimed to have sailed south on Endurance - Bristow-Bovey reveals ways in which the human heart has space for opposite things . I thoroughly enjoyed this book. -- Sara Wheeler, travel writer and biographer