The Worst Journey In The World

Name: The Worst Journey In The World
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Apsley CherryGarrard
ISBN: 9781455103508

Author: Apsley CherryGarrard

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 20 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

In 1910, Robert Falcon Scott hoped to be the first Englishman to reach the South Pole. This gripping story of courage and achievement recounts Scotts last fateful expedition, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley CherryGarrard.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Buck

Never again. Never again will I complain. About anything. The sufferings heaped on the members of Scott’s second polar expedition make the ordinary misfortunes of modern life –- the fender-benders, hangovers and breakups –- seem like pleasant diversions. There are passages in this amazing memoir whe......more

Goodreads review by Paul

An interim review on the subject of DOGS and PONIES, creatures absolutely vital to any polar expedition in 1910. (They called them ponies, they were actually small Manchurian horses.) This is what happened to working animals, sometimes. The voyage from England to Antarctica via South Africa and New......more