Worst Journey in the World

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday. This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the experience of his adventure and in doing so created a masterpiece of travel writing. Despite the horrors that Scott and his men faced, Cherry's account is filled with details of scientific discovery, unforgettable descriptions of landscape and a belief in the spirit of human beings. A celebrated and compelling book on Antarctic exploration. INTRODUCED BY SARA WHEELER 'The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece' New York Review of Books * Voted Number 1 in National Geographic's 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time * Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780099530374
• ISBN: 978-0-09-953037-4
• No. of pages: 720
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 37 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, 20th Century, Expeditions, Antarctica, Memoirs, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Polar Regions, Expeditions: popular accounts, Travel writing, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Autobiography: historical, political and military, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Classic Travel Writing