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The Worst Journey in the World
Cover
First volume frontispiece
AuthorApsley Cherry-Garrard
IllustratorEdward Adrian Wilson
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTerra Nova expedition
GenrePersonal narrative, travel
PublisherConstable & Co.
Publication date
1922
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Pages
  • 446 (volume 1)
  • 374 (volume 2)
OCLC11711468
Dewey Decimal
919.8904
LC ClassG850 1910.S465

The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning of human suffering under extreme conditions.

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