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Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Worst Journey in the World, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2011

Worst Journey in the World

Ranked number 1 in National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time

Av Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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A young member of Scott's expedition records what happens when exploration becomes an ordeal at the limits of human endurance. Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Scott's Antarctic team. His account of the expedition follows a journey that went disastrously wrong, capturing the physical horrors faced by the men alongside scientific discovery, extraordinary landscapes and the stubborn human impulse to continue. The Worst Journey in the World has become a landmark of travel and adventure writing because it refuses to separate exploration from its cost. Cold, danger and failure sit beside curiosity, comradeship and close observation of an environment that repeatedly overwhelms human plans. For readers fascinated by Antarctic exploration, polar expeditions, survival and classic adventure memoir, Cherry-Garrard's eyewitness narrative brings Scott's world into immediate focus. The knowledge of what lies ahead gives every decision, hardship and act of endurance an accumulating weight. 'The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece' New York Review of Books
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2011-06-30
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781446444146
  • Förlag: Vintage Publishing
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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.

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"'The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece'" New York Review of Books "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" -- Peter Matthiessen

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