The Worst Journey In The World
Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
In his introduction to the harrowing story of the Scott expedition to the South Pole, Apsley Cherry-Garrard states that ‘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 gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest members of Scott’s team, th….Read More
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