The Worst Journey in the World

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Overview

A beautiful, fully illustated edition of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's wonderful record of the Worst Journey in the World. Cherry-Garrard does describe Scott's unsucessful attempt to be to first person to the South Pole, but this is not the "worst journey". This is the complete book--Volumes I and II and glossary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849020909
Publisher:	Benediction Books
Publication date:	11/04/2008
Pages:	556
Sales rank:	477,750
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

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 (1922) in an attempt to overcome the horror of the journey. As the years unravelled he faced a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.

Caroline Alexander has written for The New Yorker, Granta, Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic and is the author of four previous books.

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"The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece." —The New York Review of Books

Editorial Reviews

"The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece." --The New York Review of Books

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