Worst Journey in the World
Antarctica 1910-13
By Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Cloth
December 1994
ISBN: 0-330-33585-5
607 p.
$34.00

Paperback
June 2001
Picador / Macmillan
ISBN: 0-330-48135-5
702 pages, illustrated
$19.95

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In this classic story of bravery and fortitude, first published in 1922, Cherry-Garrard relates Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913; it is one of the most famous and tragic in the annals of exploration. Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition which had two goals; to discover as much as was scientifically possible about the terrain and habitat of Antarctica and to be the first to reach the South Pole. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather, and the physical deterioration of the crew on the last part of the journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them Scott's party then had to negotiate the last, heroic part of their journey, a doomed attempt which has entered modern mythology.

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