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# The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics)

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Review: A cinematic, well-researched adventure on the high seas! - I was waiting for the physical copy of this book to come out, and it has surpassed ALL my expectations. The author has experience with animation and you can tell with the incredible character design and composition. It's very cinematic. Cherry's narration is a little dry at times, (it's from his real memoir after all) but I think the illustration makes it legible even for younger readers. It has informational asides about the environment and ship navigation between scenes of fighting storms and exploring new shores. In the foreword, the author acknowledges that she's made some changes to the phrasing of the original work for pacing, and that her goal is bringing these men back to life. I think she excelled at that. The personality of the crew really shines through in the dialogue and expressions. The backgrounds are meticulously detailed. The overall effect feels like getting a glimpse back in time. (If you are buying this book for a younger reader, know that the expedition DID end in the tragic death of three crew members and there are subtle references to that throughout Volume 1, nothing graphic. That being said, later volumes will likely deal more directly with dark subject matter.)
Review: Cherry-Garrard is arguably the best writer among all of the twentieth century Antarctic explorers - The description of the 1911 journey to collect Emperor Penguin eggs from Cape Crozier in midwinter, is a truly incredible account of suffering, courage and survival. Cherry-Garrard is arguably the best writer among all of the twentieth century Antarctic explorers. To have his first person account of this journey is a gift to any reader of the literature of exploration. It is a long book, and the writing style has dated a little. But perhaps this is more because the understated bravery and stoicism of Cherry-Garrard and his companions is so foreign to the society we live in now. I think this is the toughest story of endurance by a group of men in Antarctica. The toughest story of individual endurance must be Douglas Mawson's return trek to Cape Denison in 1913. Lennard Bickel's account of that journey would reward anyone who enjoys this book, or finds the great age of polar exploration fascinating.

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| Specification | Value |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #122,604 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #25 in Arctic & Antarctica History #72 in Expeditions & Discoveries World History (Books) #343 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,137 Reviews |

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A cinematic, well-researched adventure on the high seas!
*by C***E on June 7, 2024*

I was waiting for the physical copy of this book to come out, and it has surpassed ALL my expectations. The author has experience with animation and you can tell with the incredible character design and composition. It's very cinematic. Cherry's narration is a little dry at times, (it's from his real memoir after all) but I think the illustration makes it legible even for younger readers. It has informational asides about the environment and ship navigation between scenes of fighting storms and exploring new shores. In the foreword, the author acknowledges that she's made some changes to the phrasing of the original work for pacing, and that her goal is bringing these men back to life. I think she excelled at that. The personality of the crew really shines through in the dialogue and expressions. The backgrounds are meticulously detailed. The overall effect feels like getting a glimpse back in time. (If you are buying this book for a younger reader, know that the expedition DID end in the tragic death of three crew members and there are subtle references to that throughout Volume 1, nothing graphic. That being said, later volumes will likely deal more directly with dark subject matter.)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Cherry-Garrard is arguably the best writer among all of the twentieth century Antarctic explorers
*by S***Y on December 9, 2016*

The description of the 1911 journey to collect Emperor Penguin eggs from Cape Crozier in midwinter, is a truly incredible account of suffering, courage and survival. Cherry-Garrard is arguably the best writer among all of the twentieth century Antarctic explorers. To have his first person account of this journey is a gift to any reader of the literature of exploration. It is a long book, and the writing style has dated a little. But perhaps this is more because the understated bravery and stoicism of Cherry-Garrard and his companions is so foreign to the society we live in now. I think this is the toughest story of endurance by a group of men in Antarctica. The toughest story of individual endurance must be Douglas Mawson's return trek to Cape Denison in 1913. Lennard Bickel's account of that journey would reward anyone who enjoys this book, or finds the great age of polar exploration fascinating.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Title Says it All
*by M***N on November 19, 2011*

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." So begins Apsley Cherry-Garrard's account of his experience with Captain Scott. I was exhausted when I finished reading this book. Not because it is long (though at 564 pages it is not short), and not because it is tedious (there were only a couple of passages that I might describe that way). It's just that Cherry-Gerrard describes his journeys in Antarctica so compellingly that it is impossible not to feel that in some way you are along for the ride. At the same time, the chasm between his experiences and anything the average person is likely to experience is so enormous that you can't possibly think you have really experienced--even vicariously--what he went through. I have read many books about Antarctic exploration, and this one easily ranks with the best of them. In 1910, at the age of 24, "Cherry," as he was known, joined famed explorer Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic expedition aboard the Terra Nova. Their objective was to be the first men to reach the South Pole, thereby winning glory for England and themselves. The story of the race that ensued between Scott and the Norwegian Roald Amundsen is well known: Amundsen's secret voyage to Antarctica when most people thought he was going north; the two groups' different routes, different modes of travel, and different types of preparation; Scott's decision to make the final leg of the journey to the Pole with four companions rather than three; the disappointment on arriving at the Pole only to find that the Norwegians had beaten them by a month; the death of Edgar Evans and the subsequent death of the entire Polar party on the return journey, just a few miles from a large cache of food and supplies; the discovery of their frozen bodies (with the exception of Oates, who apparently sacrificed himself for the others and was never found); and the posthumous transformation of Scott into a hero at home in England. What Cherry adds is not just a first-person account of polar exploration (there are many of those), but a bone-chilling description of hardships faced and endured. He does so with a modicum of humor, but mostly with just the right combination of detailed observation, descriptive power, and narrative flair. The most noteworthy part of the expedition for Cherry as an individual was the famous "Winter Journey," a grueling three-man slog in the dead of the dark Antarctic winter to Cape Crozier (67 miles one-way from their base camp). The purpose of the trip was to collect emperor penguin embryos for scientific examination, but the fact that it had to be done in winter, and that this particular winter brought weather unbelievably inhospitable for traveling, made for an ordeal that Cherry describes with such a chilling matter-of-factness that it is hard to read without gasping. Take this: "It was the darkness that did it. I don't believe minus seventy temperatures would be bad in daylight, not comparatively bad . . ." Minus seventy? Not "comparatively" bad? How in the world did they make it back to their base at Hut Point alive, let alone keep journals along the way? And that is one of the most amazing things about so many of the explorers of the "golden age" of Antarctic exploration. Carrying out tasks that required the most arduous exertions, facing life-or-death situations almost daily, and ending each day in a state of utter exhaustion, they somehow found time to record their activities and their thoughts. And eloquently, too. Scott, of course, famously recorded his doomed party's activities and his own benedictory thoughts right up virtually to the moment of his death. So read Apsley Cherry-Garrard's book for his account of the polar party and the search for their bodies (a search in which he participated). Read it for the account of the incredible winter journey for the embryos. Read it for the sketches of the various characters that made up the Terra Nova's complement of officers and men. And if for no other reason, read it for gems like Chapter 6, a masterpiece on life in Antarctica and a memorable portrait of Captain Scott. This book is one of the very best accounts of Antarctic exploration. It is little wonder that it has become a classic of adventure literature.

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