The Worst Journey In The World

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This is the story of Scott’s last expedition to the Antarctic. The author, the youngest member of Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition, relates the expedition’s departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913.

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ISBN: 9780099530374 Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: 1st April 2010 Imprint: Vintage Classics Cover: Paperback Dewey: 919.8904 (edition:22) Pages: 607 Language: English Edition: New edition Readership: General - Trade / Code: K Category: Subjects: , , , , ,

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 *

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