One of the books I read last year led me to the realisation that I had no idea about the adventures of Ernest Shackleton or other early explorers of Antarctica. Deciding I needed to fix this immediately, I went on my local library site and placed a hold on the first book that came up when I searched ‘Shackleton’. What landed in my lap the following week was the kind of book you’d read for a Year 7 social science assignment, but I read it […]