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, pp. 530–534. ↩
Simpson, B.A.E., 1910–1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i, p. 291. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 540. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 541–542. ↩
Simpson, B.A.E., 1910–1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i, pp. 144–146. ↩
Simpson, B.A.E., 1910–1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i, p. 41. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 543. ↩
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Evidently meaning some miles from crest to crest. ↩
Bowers, Polar Meteorological Log. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 543–544. ↩
Simpson, B.A.E., 1910–1913, “Meteorology,” vol. i, p. 40. ↩
Bowers. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 550–551. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 552. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 541. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 549. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 557. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 560, 561. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 559. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 561. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 561. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 562, 563. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 566. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 567. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 570–571. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 573. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 575–576. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, p. 577. ↩
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Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 582, 583. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 584–599. ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. i, pp. 605–607. ↩
Scott, Voyage of the Discovery, vol. i, p. 449. ↩
Amundsen, The South Pole, vol. ii, p. 19. ↩
Lashly’s diary records that the Second Return Party found a shortage of oil at the Middle Barrier Depot (see here). ↩
Scott, “Message to the Public.” ↩
A full discussion of these and other Antarctic temperatures is to be found in the scientific reports of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, “Meteorology,” vol. i, chap. ii, by G. C. Simpson. ↩
Modern research suggests that the presence or absence of certain vitamins makes a difference, and it may be a very great difference, in the ability of any individual to profit by the food supplied to him. If this be so this factor must have had great influence upon the fate of the Polar Party, whose diet was seriously deficient in, if not absolutely free from, vitamins. The importance of this deficiency to the future explorer can hardly be exaggerated, and I suggest that no future Antarctic sledge party can ever set out to travel inland again without food which contains these vitamins. It is to be noticed that, although the Medical Research Council’s authoritative publication on the true value of these accessory substances was not available when we went South in 1910, yet Atkinson insisted that fresh onions, which had been brought down by the ship, be added to our ration for the Search Journey. Compare recent work of Professor Leonard Hill on the value of ultraviolet rays in compensating for lack of vitamins. —A. C.-G ↩
Scott’s Last Expedition, vol. ii, p. 356. ↩
My own diary. ↩
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Wilson, Nat. Ant. Exp., 1901–1904, “Zoology,” Part ii, pp. 44–45. ↩
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List of IllustrationsMcMurdo Sound from Arrival Heights in Autumn. The sun is sinking below the Western Mountains. From a watercolour drawing by Dr. Edward A. Wilson.
The Last of the Dogs. Scott’s Southern Journey 1903. From a sketch by Dr. Edward A. Wilson.
The Rookery of Emperor Penguins under the Cliffs of the Great Ice Barrier: looking east from Cape Crozier. From a sketch by Dr. Edward A. Wilson.
Raymond Priestley and Victor Campbell. From a photograph by F. Debenham.
From New Zealand to the South Pole Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Emery Walker Ltd., Collotypers.
Sunrise behind South Trinidad Island. July 26, 1910. From a watercolour drawing by Dr. Edward A. Wilson.
The Roaring Forties. From a watercolour drawing by Dr. Edward
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