The Worst Journey in the World
Edition: First Carroll & Graf edition, second printing
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780881844788
Copyright date: 1965
Subjects: Polar Regions; Discovery And Exploration (General); History - General History; History: World; Scientific expeditions; British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition; (1910-1913); Antarctic regions; Antarctica
First sentence: Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished.
Description: This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic. Apsley Cherry-Garrard—who Scott Jauded as a tough, effcient member of the team—tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice-flows. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable re- gion. It was here—in arctic temperatures—on November 12, 1912, that the author, in a search party, found the bodies of Scott and his companions along with poignant last notebook entries, some of them recorded in this work.

Among Apsley Cherry-Garrard's friends and admirers were John Galsworthy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett and Bernard Shaw. His background in the arts and humanities makes The Worst Journey in the World stand out as a literary accomplishment as well as a classic in the annals of exploration.