The Worst Journey in the World: new annotated edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Worst Journey in the World: new annotated edition write by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. This book was released on 2020-08-03. The Worst Journey in the World: new annotated edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the age of twenty-four, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of the Terra Nova expedition. This was Robert F. Scott’s second attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. Cherry’s application to join the expedition was initially rejected as Scott was looking for scientists, but he made a second application along with a promise of £1,000 (equivalent to £103,000 in 2019) towards the cost of the expedition. Rejected a second time, he made the donation regardless. Struck by this gesture, and at the same time persuaded by E.A.Wilson, Scott agreed to take Cherry-Garrard as assistant zoologist. The expedition arrived in the Antarctic on 4 January 1911.Scott and four companions eventually attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that a Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later. After returning to England, Cherry-Garrard travelled to China and then volunteered to the First World War and commanded a squadron of armoured cars in Flanders. Invalided out in 1916, he suffered from clinical depression as well as ulcerative colitis which had developed shortly after returning from Antarctica. Although his psychological condition was never cured, the explorer was able to treat himself to some extent by writing down his experiences. In 1922, encouraged by his friend George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World, his memoir of the incredible 3 years he spent in Antarctica. Over 80 years later this book is still in print and is often cited as a classic of travel literature, having been acclaimed as the greatest true adventure story ever written.
The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Worst Journey in the World write by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. This book was released on 2011-06-30. The Worst Journey in the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 *
The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Worst Journey in the World write by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. This book was released on 2014-05-25T00:00:00Z. The Worst Journey in the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1910 famous explorer Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. The expedition was part scientific and part adventure: Scott wanted to be the first to reach the pole. The expedition was beset by hardship from the beginning, and after realizing that they had been beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian Expedition, the party suffered a final tragedy: the loss of Scott and his companions to the Antarctic cold on their return journey to base camp. The Worst Journey in the World is an autobiographical account of one of the survivors of the expedition, Apsley Cherry-Garrard. It’s a unique combination of fascinating scientific documentary, adventure novel, and with the inclusion of Scott’s final journal entries, horror story. Journey is peppered throughout with journal entries, illustrations, and pictures from Cherry-Garrard’s companions, making it a fascinating window into the majesty and danger of the Antarctic. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913
The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913 write by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. This book was released on 2008-11-01. The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Worst Journey in the World - Scholar's Choice Edition
The Worst Journey in the World - Scholar's Choice Edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Worst Journey in the World - Scholar's Choice Edition write by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. This book was released on 2015-02-17. The Worst Journey in the World - Scholar's Choice Edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
