Darrel Bristow-Bovey

Darrel Bristow-Bovey was born in South Africa and  is a prize-winning screenwriter, a travel writer, and a newspaper and magazine columnist. He is the author of five books, including Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End, which have been translated into seven languages – Spanish, Estonian and Portuguese among them. Bristow-Bovey studied under J.M. Coetzee and André Brink, and currently divides his time between Cape Town, the UK and a hillside on the Greek Peloponnese. His fascination with the Endurance expedition began as a small boy, when his father first told him that he had been south with Shackleton. He still believes him.