# The Worst Journey in the World

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- Authors: [Apsley Cherry-Garrard](https://www.bookquiver.com/apsley-cherry-garrard)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-06-30
- Genres: Biography: historical, political and military, Memoirs, True stories / true accounts of events, General and world history, Travel writing

## Description

One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday. This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the experience of his adventure and in doing so created a masterpiece of travel writing. Despite the horrors that Scott and his men faced, Cherry's account is filled with details of scientific discovery, unforgettable descriptions of landscape and a belief in the spirit of human beings. A celebrated and compelling book on Antarctic exploration. INTRODUCED BY SARA WHEELER 'The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece' New York Review of Books * Voted Number 1 in National Geographic's 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time *

## Editions

### The Worst Journey in the World

- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9953-037-4
- Pages: 720
- Published: 2022-05-12
- Language: en_GB

### The Worst Journey in the World

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4644-414-6
- Published: 2011-06-30
- Language: en_GB

### The Worst Journey in the World

- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-938-9
- Pages: 640
- Published: 2006-02-28
- Language: en_US