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Selected by "Adventure" magazine as the number one adventure book of all time, "The Worst Journey in the World" is Cherry-Garrard's dramatic, moving, and exceptionally human account of his survival as the youngest member of Robert Falcon Scott's 1911 expedition to the South Pole. Maps.
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"'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 Times)
"The finest book ever written about Antarctic exploration as well as a great literary classic" (Peter Matthiessen)
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"The best polar book there is" (Observer)
"Probably the best adventure yarn ever published" (Independent)
"Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel" (The Times)
"The finest book ever written about Antarctic exploration as well as a great literary classic" (Peter Matthiessen)
'When people ask me... "What is your favourite travel book?" I nearly always name this book. It is about courage, misery, starvation, heroism, exploration, discovery and friendship' Paul Theroux
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- PublisherNatl Geographic Society
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 079226634X
- ISBN 13 9780792266341
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages561
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Selected by Adventure magazine as the number one adventure book of all time, The Worst Journey in the World is Apsley Cherry-Garrard?s dramatic, moving, and exceptionally human account of his survival as the youngest member of Robert Falcon Scott?s 1911 expedition to the South Pole. The scion of English landed gentry, Cherry-Garrard was chosen from more than 8,000 volunteers to join the Scott expedition at the height of the craze for polar exploration. When they arrived in Antarctica, ?Cherry,? as he was known, was not assigned to the team that would attain the pole, but instead, with two other members, to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. Cherry and his cohorts struggled in near total darkness across more than one hundred miles of ice in temperatures as low as 70 degrees below zero, slept in bags heavy with their own frozen sweat, dragged a 700-pound sled over whipping ice that felt like sand against their faces, and wore clothes that were literally frozen stiff. All things considered, his title seems almost charitable. In spite of the sheer suffering and loss, and despite the guilty feelings that he could have done more to save Scott and his crewmembers?a guilt that haunted him until his death?Cherry-Garrard managed to write an account of the ill-fated journey that is infused with his own sweetness and humility. Sometimes funny, often sad, and thoroughly detailed, The Worst Journey in the World is a triumph of adventure storytelling rightly deserving of its place at the top of the genre. Seller Inventory # DADAX079226634X
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