Selected Product:
| The Worst Journey in the World: A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica
Paperback
Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Publisher: The Narrative Press
Release Date: 2001-06-01
ISBN-10: 1589761200
ISBN-13: 9781589761209
List Price: $29.95
Average Customer Rating:
  | |
K2, The Savage Mountain: The Classic True Story of Disaster and Survival on the World's Second Highest Mountain
ISBN-10: 1585740136
ISBN-13: 9781585740130
List Price:$16.95
Minus 148 Degrees: The First Winter Ascent of Mount McKinley
ISBN-10: 0898866871
ISBN-13: 9780898866872
List Price:$16.95
The Last Place on Earth (Modern Library Exploration)
ISBN-10: 0375754741
ISBN-13: 9780375754746
List Price:$15.95
Shackleton's Boat Journey
ISBN-10: 0393318648
ISBN-13: 9780393318647
List Price:$14.95
In the Amazon Jungle
ISBN-10: 1406815071
ISBN-13: 9781406815078
List Price:$9.90
|
To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for The Worst Journey in the World: A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (ISBN-10: 1589761200, ISBN-13: 9781589761209).
At this time we have not yet written a review for The Worst Journey in the World: A Tale of Loss and Courage in Antarctica by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (ISBN-10: 1589761200, ISBN-13: 9781589761209). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews.
Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com
The author, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, was 24 when he was chosen from among 8,000 volunteers to join Robert Falcon Scott on the scientific expedition that was, in part, a race with Amundsen to the South Pole. Scott did not return, and Cherry-Garrard was determined to honor the accomplishments of all who participated. But it is the courage and decency of the men that is the true tale here. Enthralling, harrowing and astounding. Paul Theroux names this book as one of his favorites and it is a masterpiece of adventure narrative.
One of my all-time favorites; I recommend it to everybody.
| Customer Rating: | You will NOT be sorry to embark upon this wonderfully written, dramatic, brave and heartbreaking story by a man who survived infinitely more than you and I ever will. With typical English stoicism, but with a beautiful and compassionate effort, he tried to understand Scott and all the others who travelled with him.
And when you're finished, read "Cherry", an authorized biography by Sara Wheeler for more of his life and times.
And sit by your warm fireplace... |
My order has never been received
| Customer Rating:  | The Worst Journey in the World (purchased on 04/05/2008)
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
This order has NOT been received. Please advise as what has happened to it. |
best book about the worst journey
| Customer Rating: | | i had been meaning to read this book for ages and when i started it i could not put it down.....what a read. thank you Amazon and keep up the good work.. yours Fintan. |
Great Telling of a Great Adventure
| Customer Rating: | Cherry-Garrard is a literate,educated man, writing his experiences as well as including the memories, and journals of the other expedition members. Interesting how this young man of means who is accustomed to comfortable living,could endure such extreme hardship without complaint. The hardship and adventure begins with the terrible storm experienced on the ship from New Zealand to Antarctica. The description of this ordeal grabs hold and they haven't yet reached the Southern continent. The first year on the ice and the sledge trip during the winter months is gripping.
A compelling aspect is the matter of fact descriptions of the unbelievable [to us] hardship and daily rigors of living, sledging, carrying out scientific experiments, etc., in -20 to -70 degrees. Wind conditions that regularly must have sent wind chill factors [they never recorded such a thing] to -80 to -100 degrees,and the physical exertion. They regularly experience frost bite, hunger, occasional ptomaine from spoiled food, symptoms of Dysentary, and scurvy. Yet, they are able to recover. They never lose their spirit and comeraderie.
Until discovering the Pole parties' bodies the following year, Cherry-Garrard writes of his contentment and pride in being a member of this expedition.
In the subsequent years, until he writes the book in 1922, he becomes guilt ridden as to whether he and the other survivors could have reached and saved Scott before they died,[it seems apparent they could not have reached them. [In fact, rescueres would probably have died in an attempt]. It's impossible to imagine living in such conditions for 3 years. Constant cold, diet of seal, penguin, sometimes dog and horse, blubber, biscuit, and tea. Occasionally, chocolate, butter and sugar as a treat.
I agree with other reviewers that there is redundancy and repetition but I found it interesting to read how different members experienced the same events.
I thought from reading other books that Scott was somewhat naive and a dreamer when it came to planning and preparing for this expedition. I now feel differently. Scott prepared and planned diligently. He was well liked and respected by his men, in general, he was a strong leader. A terrible mistake was deciding at the last supply depot, to take 5 men on the final push to the Pole rather than the 4 which was the original plan. The 5th man, for which they did not have adequate supplies and the physical collapse of one member after reaching the Pole, probably cost them their lives.
Reading of a group of men living for years in these conditions, survival aways in doubt, out of touch with the rest of the world, gives perspective and toleration for what we think are trying experiences today. Early explorers are compared to to our astronauts. However,when one considers that communication is constant with space travelers. These men left and were never heard from again until they returned, if they did return, years later.
|
All time favourite travel book
| Customer Rating: | If you watch films like "The yourney of the penguins" you get not the slightest idea how brutally hostile for humans the environment of the South Pole is. If you read "The Worst Yourney In The World", you do. The book is a detailed description of the whole Scott Expedition, complete whith descriptions of packing lists, frostbite, snowblindness, awful food, recalcitrant ponys, and heroic English gentlemen. But the unpoetic language is exactly what makes the book such a worthwile read: The description is written in simple, honest words, that it gets your own imagination going. It reaches its climax with the Winter Yourney, where a small goup of men undertook a journey that was painful and horrific to a downright ridiculous extend, just to get their hands on some penguin eggs. Any romantic exaggeration would have destroyed the impact of this event in the readers mind, it is the simple, honest, sometimes even technial language that transforms this event into a classic tale. The character and the Winter Journey live on in literature, for example in Thomas Pynchons "V". The stuff of legends, on of my alltime favourites.
|
|
