One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday.
This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the experience of his adventure and in doing so created a masterpiece of travel writing. Despite the horrors that Scott and his men faced, Cherry's account is filled with details of scientific discovery, unforgettable descriptions of landscape and a belief in the spirit of human beings. A celebrated and compelling book on Antarctic exploration.
INTRODUCED BY SARA WHEELER
'The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece' New York Review of Books
* Voted Number 1 in National Geographic's 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time *
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099530374
Number of pages: 720
Weight: 562 g
Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 45 mm
The best polar book there is - Observer
Probably the best adventure yarn ever published - Independent
Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel - The Times
The finest book ever written about Antarctic exploration as well as a great literary classic
Over the greater part of a lifetime I have worn out two copies of the Antarctic's classic, Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World - William Trevor
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