The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard (book recommendations for teens txt) 📕
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In 1910 famous explorer Robert Falcon Scott led the Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole. The expedition was part scientific and part adventure: Scott wanted to be the first to reach the pole.
The expedition was beset by hardship from the beginning, and after realizing that they had been beaten to the pole by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian Expedition, the party suffered a final tragedy: the loss of Scott and his companions to the Antarctic cold on their return journey to base camp.
The Worst Journey in the World is an autobiographical account of one of the survivors of the expedition, Apsley Cherry-Garrard. It’s a unique combination of fascinating scientific documentary, adventure novel, and with the inclusion of Scott’s final journal entries, horror story. Journey is peppered throughout with journal entries, illustrations, and pictures from Cherry-Garrard’s companions, making it a fascinating window into the majesty and danger of the Antarctic.
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 138. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 180–81. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 187–188. Scott started for the Pole on November 1, 1911. Amundsen started on September 8, 1911, but had to turn back owing to low temperatures; he started again on October 19. ↩
Priestley’s diary. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 185. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 190–191. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 191–192. ↩
Wilson camped with the two dog-teams on the land, and in the morning saw us floating on the ice-floes through his field-glasses. He made his way along the peninsula until he could descend on to the Barrier, where he joined Scott. ↩
I think he was stiff after standing so many hours. —A. C.-G. ↩
Scott, The Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i, p. 350. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 201. ↩
Bowers. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 207. ↩
My own diary. ↩
Bowers. ↩
My own diary. ↩
Bowers’ letter. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 604. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 599, 602, 607. ↩
Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. ii, p. 53. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 295. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 432–433. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 597. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 362. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 396. ↩
With Scott: The Silver Lining, Taylor, p. 240. ↩
F. G. Jackson, A Thousand Days in the Arctic, vol. ii, pp. 380–381. ↩
See here. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 4. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 352. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 353. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 353. ↩
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A thermometer which registered −77° at the Winter Quarters of H.M.S. Alert on March 4, 1876, is preserved by the Royal Geographical Society. I do not know whether it was screened. ↩
My own diary. ↩
My own diary. ↩
My own diary. ↩
My own diary. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, p. 42. ↩
Keats. ↩
Bowers. ↩
My own diary. ↩
Bowers. ↩
Wilson in Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, p. 58. ↩
My own diary. ↩
Wilson. ↩
Bowers. ↩
My own diary. ↩
My own diary. ↩
My own diary. ↩
My own diary. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 361. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, p. 293. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, pp. 291–297; written by Lieutenant Evans. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, vol. i, p. 409. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 403. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 425. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 437. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 429. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 438. ↩
Taylor, with Scott, The Silver Lining, pp. 325–326. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 448. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 449. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 446. ↩
See here, here through here. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 453. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 452. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 438–439. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 450. ↩
Bowers. ↩
Bowers. ↩
My own diary. ↩
Bowers. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 463. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 462. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 461. ↩
Bowers. ↩
Bowers. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 465.
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