The worst journey in the world
Subtitle: Antarctica, 1910-1913
By: by Apsley Cherry-Gerrard
Publisher: Skyhorse Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781620874080
Subjects: British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913); British; Discovery and exploration
Description: "In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott set out to study penguin eggs in Antarctica on the British Antarctic Expedition, known today as the Terra Nova Expedition. He hoped to find an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles. ... In [this book] Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the youngest member of the team, reports the ... unfolding of the ... expedition - an adventure from which he emerged as the only survivor. ... [He] stayed behind to study eggs while Scott and three other members of the team went back into the cold with their sights set on the South Pole. As weeks passed, Cherry-Garrard and his colleagues realized Scott was not going to return. [He] joined the rescue team to find the tent that housed the explorers' frozen bodies and diaries - resources the author used to write much of [this book]." -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.