Worst Journey in the World (eBook)

Antarctic 1910-1913

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
712 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0758-0 (ISBN)

Infos

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore, wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in the opening chapters of his now classic exploration narrative, The Worst Journey in the World. The incredible tale that he tells is of the fated last voyage of Captain Robert Scott and his crew to the outermost reaches of the South Pole on the Terra Nova. Chronicling the journey of the Terra Nova from England in 1910 to New Zealand in 1913, The Worst Journey in the World vividly describes the entirety of Scotts harrowing and tragic final expedition. Driven by a lust to investigate the untold scientific knowledge contained within the South Pole, these courageous pioneers embarked on a journey into previously unexplored territory, subjecting themselves to the ultimate physical and mental limits as they traveled the massive expanses of the icy tundra.Cherry-Garrard was a key member of the Terra Nova crew that, in addition to the desire to uncover scientific data, desperately sought to be the first Europeans to reach the South Pole. But the expedition was thwarted at every turn by punishing weather, extreme bad luck, and the intense physical and mental decline of the crew on the final stages of their journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that rival explorer Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole only a few weeks before them, Scotts team then had to negotiate the last stage of their voyage, a doomed attempt which has no equal in peril, disaster, and tragedy.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was born in 1886 and educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. At twenty-four he was one of the youngest members of Scott’s British Antarctic Expedition. He served in the First World War until being invalided out of the Navy in 1915 and started to write The Worst Journey in the World during his convalescence. He wrote introductory chapters to Wilson of the Antarctic (1933) and Life of the Bowers (1938). He died in 1959.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2016
• Vorwort: Ted Janulis, Kenneth Kamler
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: 1910-1913 • 1911 • adelie • America • Antarctica • antarctic expedition • antarctic winter • blizzards • books on blizzards • books on bowers • books on emperor penguins • books on killer whales • books on official records • books on partys • books on polar explorers • books on rookeries • books on sledges • books on south poles • books on terra novas books on n • books on voyages • bowers • cape crozier • Cardiff • Cherry • crevasses • degrees below • Depots • diary excerpts • disastrously wrong • edgar evans • emperor penguins • endurance • England • franklin expedition • garrard • gripping account • Howling • huntford • ice shelf • intellectual passion • killer whales • lawrences • morphia • nova expedition • official record • Partys • Peary • pemmican ape-shit • penguin eggs • physical elements • physical expression • polar expedition • polar exploration • polar explorers • polar party • Ponies • Roald Amundsen • rookeries • ross ice • scott expedition • shackleton's • sledges • sledging • sleeping bags • South Pole • south pole station • temperatures • tent • Terra Nova • titus oates • Voyage • winter journey
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0758-1 / 1510707581
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0758-0 / 9781510707580