The Worst Journey in the World
About this book
The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's 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.
Contains:
- Worst Journey in the World: 1/2
- Worst Journey in the World: 2/2
Subjects
- adélie penguins
- antarctic petrel
- aurora borealis
- bilizzards
- black-breasted petrel
- blubber
- british discovery and exploration
- challenger expedition
- crab-eating seal
- discovery expedition
- dogs
- dolphins
- emperor penguins
- equator
- giant petrel
- helminthology
- hyperoodon rostrata
- ice
- icebergs
- jackson-harmsworth expedition
- kayaks
- killer whales
- land crabs
- manchurian ponies
- marine biology
- mirages
- mules
- œstrelata arminjoniana
- œstrelata trinitatis
- oil
- orca gladiator
- plankton
- polychaete worms
- portuguese man-of-war
- ptomaine poisoning
- ross seal
- scott's last expedition
- sea-cucumber
- sea leopard
- seals
- sea-urchins
- skua gulls
- sledge meters
- sledge runners
- sledges
- snow-blindness
- snowy petrel
- symptoms of scurvy
- weddell seal
- white-breasted petrel