The Worst Journey in the World; Antarctic 1910-1913

by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

• ISBN13: 9781592282128
• ISBN10: 1592282121
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty introduction to this classic story of bravery and fortitude first published in 1922. 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. Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition that had two goals: 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 on the last part of the journey.

Author Biography

APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD was born in 1886 and educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. At twenty-four he was one of the youngest members of Scott's British Antarctic Expedition. He served in the First World War until being invalided out of the Navy in 1915, and during his convalescence started to write The Worst Journey in the World. He wrote introductory chapters to Wilson of the Antarctic (1933) and Life of Bowers (1938). He died in 1959.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	vi
Introduction by the author	vii
Foreword to the 1965 edition by George Seaver	lv
The manuscript of The Worst Journey in the World	lxxxvii
Introduction to the 1994 edition by Paul Theroux	lxxxix
Foreword by Kenneth Kamler, M.D.	xcvii
1. From England to South Africa	1	(22)
2. Making Our Easting Down	23	(24)
3. Southward	47	(33)
4. Land	80	(27)
5. The Depot Journey	107	(75)
6. The First Winter	182	(53)
7. The Winter Journey	235	(76)
8. Spring	311	(16)
9. The Polar Journey: I	327	(36)
10. The Polar Journey: II	363	(19)
11. The Polar Journey: III	382	(12)
12. The Polar Journey: IV	394	(28)
13. Suspense	422	(29)
14. The Last Winter	451	(24)
15. Another Spring	475	(13)
16. The Search Journey	488	(23)
17. The Polar Journey: V	511	(33)
18. The Polar Journey: VI	544	(18)
19. Never Again	562	(37)
Glossary	599	(2)
Index	601