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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
""When people ask me, 'What is your favorite travel book?' I nearly
always name this book. It is about courage, misery, starvation,
heroism, exploration, discovery, and friendship." --Paul
Theroux
"National Geographic Adventure "magazine hailed this volume as the
#1 greatest adventure book of all time. Published in 1922 by an
expedition survivor, it recounts the riveting tale of Robert Falcon
Scott's ill-fated race to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard,
the youngest member of the party, offers sensitive
characterizations of each of his companions. Their journal entries
complement his narrative, providing vivid perspectives on the
expedition's dangers and hardships as well as its inspiring
examples of optimism, strength, and selflessness.
Hoping to prove a missing link between reptiles and birds, the
author and his companions traveled through the dead of Antarctic
winter to the remote breeding grounds of the Emperor Penguin. They
crossed a frozen sea in utter darkness, dragging an 800-pound
sledge through blizzards, howling winds, and average temperatures
of 60 below zero. This "worst journey" was followed by the
disastrous trek to the South Pole. Cherry-Garrard's compelling
account constitutes a moving testament to Scott and to the other
men of the expedition. This new edition of the adventure classic
features several pages of vintage photographs.
Perhaps the greatest first-hand account of polar exploration.
In his introduction to the harrowing story of the Scott expedition
to the South Pole, Apsley Cherry-Garrard states that "Polar
Exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having
a bad time which has been devised." This is his gripping account of
an expedition gone disastrously wrong.
One of the youngest members of Scott's team, the author was later
part of the rescue party that eventually found the frozen bodies of
Scott and three men who had accompanied him on the final push to
the Pole. Prior to this sad denouement, 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.
Summing up the reasons for writing the book, Cherry-Garrard says:
"To me, and perhaps to you, the interest in this story is the men,
and it is the spirit of the men, "the response of the spirit,"
which is interesting rather than what they did or failed to do:
except in a superficial sense, they never failed... It is a story
about human minds with all kinds of ideas and questions involved,
which stretch beyond the furthest horizons."
"The Worst Journey in the World" recounts Robert Falcon Scott's
ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard?the
youngest member of Scott's team and one of three men to make and
survive the notorious Winter Journey?draws on his firsthand
experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a
stirring and detailed account of Scott's legendary expedition.
Cherry himself would be among the search party that discovered the
corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from
starvation and brutal cold. It is through Cherry's insightful
narrative and keen descriptions that Scott and the other members of
the expedition are fully memorialized.
In 1910 - hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles - a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on an expedition to Antarctica. Not all of them would return. Written by one of its survivors, "The Worst Journey in the World" tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous expedition.
This volume is a narrative of Scott's last expedition from its
departure from England in 1910 to its return to New Zealand in
1913.
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.
Dieses Buch enthalt die Reiseerzahlungen von Robert Falcon Scott's
letzter Expedition, die ihn 1910 von England aus in die Antarktis
verschlug, wo er zwei Jahre spater tragischerweise ums Leben kam.
Der Autor Apsley Cherry-Garrard war Teil des Expeditionsteams
Scott's und fand zusammen mit anderen den Kapitan und andere
erfroren auf. Die Expedition sollte die Manner britischer Herkunft
noch vor dem Norweger Roald Asmundsen zum Sudpol bringen, doch der
Weg dorhin erwies sich als zu hart, sie schafften kaum ihr
tagliches Kilometer-Pensum. Daruber hinaus bescherte ihnen die
Antarktis zu dieser Zeit besonders harte Witterungsbedingungen,
aufgrund derer das Team nach und nach der Kalte zum Opfer fiel.
Dieser Reiseroman beschreibt detailreich und erschutternd die
Erlebnisse in Schnee und Eis, welche mit zahlreichen Bildern noch
unterstutzt werden.
Dieses Buch enthalt die Reiseerzahlungen von Robert Falcon Scott's
letzter Expedition, die ihn 1910 von England aus in die Antarktis
verschlug, wo er zwei Jahre spater tragischerweise ums Leben kam.
Der Autor Apsley Cherry-Garrard war Teil des Expeditionsteams
Scott's und fand zusammen mit anderen den Kapitan und andere
erfroren auf. Die Expedition sollte die Manner britischer Herkunft
noch vor dem Norweger Roald Asmundsen zum Sudpol bringen, doch der
Weg dorhin erwies sich als zu hart, sie schafften kaum ihr
tagliches Kilometer-Pensum. Daruber hinaus bescherte ihnen die
Antarktis zu dieser Zeit besonders harte Witterungsbedingungen,
aufgrund derer das Team nach und nach der Kalte zum Opfer fiel.
Dieser Reiseroman beschreibt detailreich und erschutternd die
Erlebnisse in Schnee und Eis, welche mit zahlreichen Bildern noch
unterstutzt werden.
Dieses Buch enth lt die Reiseerz hlungen von Robert Falcon Scott's
letzter Expedition, die ihn 1910 von England aus in die Antarktis
verschlug, wo er zwei Jahre sp ter tragischerweise ums Leben kam.
Der Autor Apsley Cherry-Garrard war Teil des Expeditionsteams
Scott's und fand zusammen mit anderen den Kapit n und andere
erfroren auf. Die Expedition sollte die M nner britischer Herkunft
noch vor dem Norweger Roald Asmundsen zum S dpol bringen, doch der
Weg dorhin erwies sich als zu hart, sie schafften kaum ihr t
gliches Kilometer-Pensum. Dar ber hinaus bescherte ihnen die
Antarktis zu dieser Zeit besonders harte Witterungsbedingungen,
aufgrund derer das Team nach und nach der K lte zum Opfer fiel.
Dieser Reiseroman beschreibt detailreich und ersch tternd die
Erlebnisse in Schnee und Eis, welche mit zahlreichen Bildern noch
unterst tzt werden.
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