The Worst Journey in the World

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Author

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Publication

2010 - Vintage Books, London

Language

English

Word Count

246,922 words, Calculated

Page Count

607 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

Internet Archiveworstjourneyinwo0000cher_i4q3
ISBN-100099530376
ISBN-139780099530374
Goodreads61429006
OCLC Control Number495597323

and 3 more

OCLC Control Number751467252
Better World Books9780099530374
Open LibraryOL24089625M

Classifications

LCCG850 1910
LCCG850 1910 .S465 2010
LCCG845

and 1 more

LCCG'850'1910'C47

Description

The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning of human suffering under extreme conditions. ---------- Contains: - [Worst Journey in the World: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18027997W) - [Worst Journey in the World: 2/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24569906W)

First Sentence

Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished.

Excerpt

Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished.

Excerpt

This post-war business is inartistic, for it is seldom that any one does anything well for the sake of doing it well; and it is un-Christian, if you value Christianity, for men are out to hurt and not to help—can you wonder, when the Ten Commandments were hurled straight from the pulpit through good stained glass.

Description

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 in the World is the most celebrated and compelling of all the books on Antarctic exploration.