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The Worst Journey In The World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Description for The Worst Journey In The World
Paperback. Presents an account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. This book details scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from explorers. Num Pages: 720 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; BTP; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 520.
The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest members of Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was later part of the rescue party that found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. Despite the horrors that Scott and his men eventually faced, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other explorers. A masterpiece of travel writing, The Worst Journey ... Read more
The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest members of Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was later part of the rescue party that found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. Despite the horrors that Scott and his men eventually faced, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other explorers. A masterpiece of travel writing, The Worst Journey ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099530374
SKU
9780099530374
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About Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic which he joined to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. After the expedition, Cherry-Garrard served in the First World War and was invalided home. With the zealous encouragement of his neighbour, George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World ... Read more
Reviews for The Worst Journey In The World
'The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece'
New York Review of Books
The best polar book there is
Observer
Probably the best adventure yarn ever published
Independent
Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel
The ... Read more
New York Review of Books
The best polar book there is
Observer
Probably the best adventure yarn ever published
Independent
Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel
The ... Read more