'When people ask me... "What is your favourite travel book?" I nearly always name this book. It is about courage, misery, starvation, heroism, exploration, discovery and friendship' Paul Theroux
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 invalided home. With the zealous encouragement of his neighbour, George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World (1922) in an attempt to overcome the horror of the journey. As the years unravelled he faced a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.
The best polar book there is
*Observer*
Probably the best adventure yarn ever published
*Independent*
Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel
*The Times*
The finest book ever written about Antarctic exploration as well as
a great literary classic
Over the greater part of a lifetime I have worn out two copies of
the Antarctic's classic, Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey
in the World
*William Trevor*
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