The Worst Journey in the World Lib/E (Audiobook)

from jdayrutherford

An incredible story told from a junior member of the team (Appsley Cherry-Garrad). The worst journey refers to a side trip taken to Cape Crozier by Wilson,Bowers,and Cherry-Garrard to observe and study the Emperor penguin. The expediton was organized as a scientific study, but was of course also ...

from co_coyote

Paul Theroux calls this first person account of the ill-fated 1910-1913 Robert F. Scott expedition to the South Pole his "favorite travel book." I know what he means. My copy, a musty 2nd edition that I found in the bowels of the University library, is well over 500 pages long, and I think I read...

from jimrbrown

I grew up listening to heroic stories of Captain Scott and his brave men. This book covers the whole amazing expedition from start to finish and is a remarkable story of bravery and fortitude. Scott may not have been the first to reach the South Pole but his story in this book will live with me f...

from Clueless

Thank goodness that Cherry-Garrard was spared to relate this harrowing tale. Imagine it being so cold that it's hard to 'chip slivers off of butter'!? In places the language was so dated (or British) that I had to make out what was meant by the context. It must have been terribly disorienting to ...

from JanetinLondon

Like most people, I have always "known" a bit about Scott's journey to the South Pole - how it was a race with Amundsen, how the Norwegians "won", how Scott did get there but didn't make it back, and above all how Captain Oates tried to sacrifice himself to save the others, famously quoted as say...