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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

The Worst Journey in the World : Ranked number 1 in National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time

The Worst Journey in the World : Ranked number 1 in National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time

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Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

Antarctica

Published on 1 April 2010 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom.


Paperback / softback | 720 pages
198 x 130 x 39 | 578g

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 *

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