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The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 1965

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The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning of human suffering under extreme conditions. ---------- Contains: - [Worst Journey in the World: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18027997W) - [Worst Journey in the World: 2/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24569906W)

First sentence: Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished.

Book details

Year
1965
Language
English
Publisher
Trans-Atlantic Publications
Editions
42
Reader rating
4.2 / 5 (5)
Pages
660
ISBN
9780330335850

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