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The Worst Journey in the World
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Three men. Antarctic winter. Total darkness. -70 degrees. They went anyway.
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Cherry-Garrard was the youngest member of Scott's Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. In the winter of 1911 he and two companions made a five-week journey in total darkness and temperatures of -70°F to collect emperor penguin eggs for science. Three men walking through the Antarctic winter with no GPS, no radio, canvas tents, and sleeping bags that froze solid every night. This is the account of that journey and of Scott's fatal polar trek. The most harrowing dispatch from the edge of human endurance ever written. Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he went. He spent the rest of his life trying to understand why.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Antarctica
- Voice
- An outside perspective on Antarctica
- Themes
- Witness
