- British discovery and exploration, Adélie penguins, Aurora borealis, marine biology
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.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and bleak.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- First published
- November 1965
- Pages
- 607
- Publisher
- National Geographic, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Penguin Books
- Editions
- 67
- Language
- Spanish, Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780099530374
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“Scott used to say that the worst part of an expedition was over when the preparation was finished.”
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