AustLit

'Shackleton's Drift is a story from award-winning author Craig Cormick, about trying to tell the story of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton. Frank, the hapless narrator, is struggling to make sense of the uncontrolled drift of his own life - marriage break- up, job redundancies, terrorism attacks - but only finds meaning and consolation in Shackleton's story. He follows Shackleton's epic travails on the ice closely until he is writing himself into the story. He is there with Shackleton, freezing, weary, facing death, but in a place he oddly feels more content and in control than in his own uncertain place in the modern world.' (Publisher's blurb)