The Worst Journey in the World (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
607
Utgivningsdatum
2004-03-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
The Lyons Press
Medarbetare
Theroux, Paul (introd.)
Dimensioner
228 x 154 x 50 mm
Vikt
1020 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9781592282128

The Worst Journey in the World

Antarctic 1910 - 13

av Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Häftad,  Engelska, 2004-03-01

Slutsåld

The story of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic, from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913; it is one of the most famous and tragic in the annals of exploration. 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, which lies far to the south. Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition, which 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. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them, Scott's party then had to negotiate the last, heroic part of their journey, a doomed attempt which has entered modern mythology. The Worst Journey In The World is the inside story of this most famous of journeys and is truly one of

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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 died in 1959

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