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Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9780143039389 Buy
Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9781440626968 Buy
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Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9780143039389
Feb 28, 2006 | ISBN 9781440626968
A firsthand account of Scott’s disastrous Antarctic expeditionThe Worst Journey in the World recounts Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Apsley Cherry-Garrard—the youngest member of Scott’s team and one of three men to make and survive the notorious Winter Journey—draws on his firsthand experiences as well as the diaries of his compatriots to create a stirring and detailed account of Scott’s legendary expedition. Cherry himself would be among the search party that discovered the corpses of Scott and his men, who had long since perished from starvation and brutal cold. It is through Cherry’s insightful narrative and keen descriptions that Scott and the other members of the expedition are fully memorialized.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott’s final expedition to the Antarctic which he joined to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. After the expedition, Cherry-Garrard served in the First World War and was… More about Apsley Cherry-Garrard
“The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel… a masterpiece.” —The New York Review of Books
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