The Worst Journey in the World
Subtitle: Antarctica 1910-13
By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard ; with an introduction by Sara Wheeler
Contributors: Lehman, Ellen J., 1944- donor
Edition: Pimlico edition (8)
Publisher: Pimlico
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 607
ISBN-13: 9781844131037
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Travel; Discovery and exploration; British; Discoveries in geography; Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912; Antarctica Discovery and exploration British; British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913); British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913) fast (OCoLC)fst01405157
Description: In his introduction to this harrowing story of the 1912 Scott expedition to the South Pole, Apsley Cherry-Garrard states: 'Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.' The Worst Journey in the World is his account of an expedition which went disastrously wrong.

One of the youngest members of Scott's team, the author was later part of the rescue party that eventually found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. Despite the horrors Scott and his men eventually faced, Cherry-Garrard's account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other explorers.

A masterpiece of travel writing, The Worst Journey in the World is the most celebrated and compelling of all books on Antarctic exploration.
Notes: Originally published: London: Picador, 1994.

Includes index.

Presented by Ellen Lehman, November 2020.