The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
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Author: Apsley Cherry-GarrardIntroduction: Caroline Alexander
Edition: Paperback
Published: 2006-02-28
ISBN: 0143039385
Number of pages: 688
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Book Review: In this case, Worst Journey is no conceit
Summary: 5 Stars
It's been more than ten years since I read Cherry-Garrard's account of Scott's journey to Antarctica, but I can still feel the lung-searing cold and hear the hellish, monstrous wind coming out of the center of the continent into which the journey was headed. I have never read of anything more terrible than this expedition including Shackleton's truncated Antarctic nightmare and Lewis and Clark's astonishing and dangerous overland haul from St. Louis to the Pacific.
This particular expedition was one terrible misadventure after another almost from the very start when there is a storm at sea right out of the gate as the ship carrying everyone and everything from Tierra del Fuego is swamped and so much food, materiel, and livestock are lost overboard. From there the bad luck never seems to stop. The very fact that these men continued on under circumstances that would have discouraged and then defeated most human beings is almost past credibility. In particular I remember the constant breaking down of the diesel-engined snow cats, the terrible fate of the Asian ponies, the leopard seals, and the long dark impossible trip that Garrard and one other member of the expedition take in the dead of the Antarctic winter to the Emperor Penguin breeding grounds to retrieve a few precious eggs for science. In winter. In the dark. Wearing 1911 woolen clothes, eating preseved 1911 food, and using 1911 (non-)technology. It took 1911 men to do it. I cannot imagine anyone from our time doing this with that equipment. At times I simply had to stop reading and wonder just how much more hardship human beings could stand. I've never felt so physically uncomfortable, so drained and so worried (as a mere reader!) as I was ploughing through this book which was a feat (the writing of it) in itself.
This is a story about a long-vanished era where grit and determination were measured on a different scale from what we see today. An absolute must for any lover of true adventure. It truly was the worst journey in the world against which any subsequent missioin of its kind - including extra-terrestrial - must be judged.
Summary of The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)
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.Polar Regions Books
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