The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Overview

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty introduction to this classic story of bravery and fortitude first published in 1922. The story he relates is of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic. From its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913, it is one of the most famous and tragic in the annals of exploration. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked on a journey into the unknown, testing their endurance by pushing themselves to the ultimate physical and mental limits as they surveyed the striking and mammoth land that lay far to the south.

Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition that had two goals: to discover as much as was scientifically possible about the terrain and habitat of Antarctica, and to be the first to reach the South Pole. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather conditions of unanticipated ferocity, and the physical deterioration of the party on the last part of the journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them, Scott's party then had to negotiate the last, heroic part of their journey, a doomed attempt which has entered modern mythology. The Worst Journey in the World is the inside story of this most famous of journeys and is truly one of the best and most moving books of travel ever written. Join Scott's expedition as he and his team venture deep into the frozen unknown. This volume is the second in the continuing series of Explorers Club Classic books.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788027388240
Publisher:	E-Artnow
Publication date:	06/26/2024
Pages:	444
Sales rank:	1,619,685
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was born in 1886 and educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. At twenty-four he was one of the youngest members of Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition. He served in the First World War until being invalided out of the Navy in 1915 and started to write The Worst Journey in the World during his convalescence. He wrote introductory chapters to Wilson of the Antarctic (1933) and Life of the Bowers (1938). He died in 1959.

Table of Contents

List of Maps vi

Introduction by the author vii

Foreword Kenneth Kamler, MD lv

Foreword to the 1965 edition George Seaver lix

Acknowledgments for the 2016 Edition xci

Foreword to the 2016 Edition Ted Janulis xciii

1 From England to South Africa 1

2 Making Our Easting Down 23

3 Southward 47

4 Land 80

5 The Depot Journey 107

6 The First Winter 182

7 The Winter Journey 235

8 Spring 311

9 The Polar journey 327

10 The Polar Journey Continued 363

11 The Polar Journey Continued 382

12 The Polar Journey Continued 394

13 Suspense 422

14 The Last Winter 451

15 Another Spring 475

16 The Search Journey 488

17 The Polar Journey V 511

18 The Polar Journey VI 544

19 Never Again 562

Glossary 599

Editorial Reviews

The author was among the members of Scott's last Antarctic expedition. Published in 1922, this retelling relates the hardships and plain bad luck encountered on the three-year journey, not the least of which was being beaten by another expedition. Thrilling and heartbreaking. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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