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Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor

  Published:  2021, Harper Collins Genre: Fiction Themes:  Antarctic research, extreme weather, communications, injury My rating (out of 5):  ❤❤❤❤ Before starting this book you will need to switch your imagination to 'wide screen' and channel your inner David Attenborough as you picture the stark white landscape of Antarctica.  You must be prepared to mentally stand in the extreme cold and feel the force of the wind crashing against your body while you watch the field workers go about their business.  Jon McGregor will take you across the ice and snow with Robert 'Doc' Wright, a veteran of the Antarctic, and his two young researchers Luke and Thomas and very quickly you will understand the constant danger of just being in that environment. When an unauthorised expedition goes wrong, the whole team are plunged into mortal danger, and each man finds himself alone and fighting for his life against the elements.  What happens next tests the limits of their...