The Worst Journey In The World

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World (Illustrated) written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written by a member of the expedition, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning (if any) of human suffering under extreme conditions. In 1910, Cherry-Garrard and his fellow explorers travelled by sailing vessel, the Terra Nova, from Cardiff to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The second-in-command, Dr Edward Wilson had a personal goal in Antarctica to recover eggs of the Emperor penguin for scientific study. As the bird nests during the Antarctic winter, it was necessary to mount a special expedition in July 1911, to the penguins' rookery at Cape Crozier. Wilson chose Cherry-Garrard to accompany him and another crew member across the Ross Ice Shelf under conditions of complete darkness and temperatures of −40 °C and below. All three men, barely alive, returned from Cape Crozier with their egg specimens, which were stored.

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446444147
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 *

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Worst Journey in the World" (Antarctic 1910-1913) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : MarcoPolo Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World: new annotated edition written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by MarcoPolo Editions. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of twenty-four, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of the Terra Nova expedition. This was Robert F. Scott’s second attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. Cherry’s application to join the expedition was initially rejected as Scott was looking for scientists, but he made a second application along with a promise of £1,000 (equivalent to £103,000 in 2019) towards the cost of the expedition. Rejected a second time, he made the donation regardless. Struck by this gesture, and at the same time persuaded by E.A.Wilson, Scott agreed to take Cherry-Garrard as assistant zoologist. The expedition arrived in the Antarctic on 4 January 1911.Scott and four companions eventually attained the pole on 17 January 1912, where they found that a Norwegian expedition led by Roald Amundsen had preceded them by 34 days. Scott's entire party died on the return journey from the pole; some of their bodies, journals, and photographs were found by a search party eight months later. After returning to England, Cherry-Garrard travelled to China and then volunteered to the First World War and commanded a squadron of armoured cars in Flanders. Invalided out in 1916, he suffered from clinical depression as well as ulcerative colitis which had developed shortly after returning from Antarctica. Although his psychological condition was never cured, the explorer was able to treat himself to some extent by writing down his experiences. In 1922, encouraged by his friend George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World, his memoir of the incredible 3 years he spent in Antarctica. Over 80 years later this book is still in print and is often cited as a classic of travel literature, having been acclaimed as the greatest true adventure story ever written.

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 913 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 913 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626362254
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910, hoping that the study of penguin eggs would provide an evolutionary link between birds and reptiles, a group of explorers left Cardiff by boat on Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to Antarctica. Not all of them would return. Written by one of its survivors, The Worst Journey in the World tells the moving and dramatic story of the disastrous Scott expedition. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked on a journey into the unknown, testing their endurance by pushing themselves to the ultimate physical and mental limits as they surveyed the striking and mammoth land that lay far to the south. Their goal was to discover as much as was scientifically possible about the terrain and habitat of Antarctica, and to be the first to reach the South Pole. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather conditions of unanticipated ferocity, and the physical deterioration of the party itself on the last part of the journey. The youngest member of the team and its sole survivor, Apsley Cherry-Garrard gives a gripping account of Scott’s last expedition. The author was also part of the rescue team that eventually found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. These deaths would haunt him for the rest of his life as he questioned the decisions he had made and the actions he had taken in the days leading up to the Polar Party’s demise. Prior to this sad denouement, Cherry-Garrard’s account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment. Each participant in the expedition is brought fully to life. The author’s recollections are supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other teammates.

Author : Zadie Smith
Publisher : Kiepenheuer & Witsch
ISBN 13 : 346230853X
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Die Botschaft von Kambodscha / The Embassy of Cambodia written by Zadie Smith and published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nach ihrem großen Roman »London NW« legt Zadie Smith mit dieser brillanten Erzählung nach – ein literarischer Diamant! Jeden Montag beobachtet Fatou einen Federball, der hinter den hohen Mauern der Botschaft von Kambodscha hin und her fliegt – ein scheinbar unendlich andauerndes Match. Fatou ist auf dem Weg zum Schwimmbad, wo sie jeden Montagmorgen ihre Bahnen zieht. Neben den sonntäglichen Treffen mit Andrew Okonkwo, einem bibelfesten Studenten aus Nigeria, ist dies die einzige Stunde in der Woche, die ganz ihr gehört. Den Rest der Woche arbeitet Fatou als Haushälterin bei den Derawals, kauft ein, kocht, putzt und hütet die Kinder. Nein, eine Sklavin ist Fatou nicht. Hin und wieder wird sie geschlagen, und bezahlt wird sie für ihre Arbeit nicht, das Haus aber verlässt sie regelmäßig und ohne um Erlaubnis fragen zu müssen. Fatou ist stoisch, sie geht durchs Leben, wie sie ihre Bahnen im Schwimmbad zieht, und es scheint fast, als würde alles immer so weitergehen – bis Fatou einem der Kinder zufällig das Leben rettet und damit das eingespielte Gleichgewicht der Familie Derawal durcheinanderbringt.Mit »Die Botschaft von Kambodscha« stellt die großartige Zadie Smith einmal mehr unter Beweis, dass es manchmal nur weniger Worte bedarf, um eine große Geschichte zu erzählen. »Dieses prägnante Glanzstück zeigt einmal mehr, warum Zadie Smith im Alter von 38 Jahren zu den kenntnisreichsten, witzigsten, differenziertesten Beobachtern der post-kolonialen Landschaft zählt.« The Star

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486477320
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1922 by an expedition survivor, this riveting adventure classic recounts the ill-fated expedition to the South Pole led by Robert Falcon Scott. Journal entries by other expedition members complement the narrative, offering an incredible, unforgettable story of struggle and courage in the face of overwhelming odds.

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3845713194
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieses Buch enthält die Reiseerzählungen von Robert Falcon Scott's letzter Expedition, die ihn 1910 von England aus in die Antarktis verschlug, wo er zwei Jahre später tragischerweise ums Leben kam. Der Autor Apsley Cherry-Garrard war Teil des Expeditionsteams Scott's und fand zusammen mit anderen den Kapitän und andere erfroren auf. Die Expedition sollte die Männer britischer Herkunft noch vor dem Norweger Roald Asmundsen zum Südpol bringen, doch der Weg dorhin erwies sich als zu hart, sie schafften kaum ihr tägliches Kilometer-Pensum. Darüber hinaus bescherte ihnen die Antarktis zu dieser Zeit besonders harte Witterungsbedingungen, aufgrund derer das Team nach und nach der Kälte zum Opfer fiel. Dieser Reiseroman beschreibt detailreich und erschütternd die Erlebnisse in Schnee und Eis, welche mit zahlreichen Bildern noch unterstützt werden.

Author : Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 : 9781437856262
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913 written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: