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'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)
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Epigraph: 'We all have our own White South.' -Sir Ernest Shackleton
'You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.' -Thomas Pynchon, V
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Polar Fictions Inspired by Exploration
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 November 2009; (p. 12)
— Review of The Nature of Ice 2009 single work novel ; Shackleton's Drift 2009 single work novel
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Polar Fictions Inspired by Exploration
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 14 November 2009; (p. 12)
— Review of The Nature of Ice 2009 single work novel ; Shackleton's Drift 2009 single work novel
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