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The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 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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“They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children, or like old men, full of their own importance and late for dinner, in their black tail-coats and white shirt-fronts — and rather portly withal.”

Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World (1922)
Personification of penguins.

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“Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”

Apsley Cherry-Garrard The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the World (1922)

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