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The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
- Unabridged
Narrator: Robert Whitfield
Length: 19 hours and 52 min.
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This gripping story of courage and achievement is the account of Robert Falcon Scott's last fateful expedition to the Antarctic, as told by surviving expedition member Apsley Cherry-Garrard. Cherry-Garrard, whom Scott lauded as a tough, efficient member of the team, tells of the journey from England to South Africa and southward to the ice floes. From there began the unforgettable polar journey across a forbidding and inhospitable region. On November 12, 1912, in arctic temperatures, the author, in a search party, found the bodies of Scott and his companions along with poignant last notebook entries, some of them recorded in this work.
Among Apsley Cherry-Garrard's friends and admirers were John Galsworthy, H.G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, and Bernard Shaw. His background in the arts and humanities makes The Worst Journey in the World stand out as a literary accomplishment as well as a classic in the annals of exploration.
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Critics Reviews
"Robert Whitfield picks up on Cherry-Garrard's dry sense of humor, stiff-upper-lip approach to adversity, and appreciation for nature, the dogs and ponies on whom the expedition depended, and the polar landscape." (AudioFile)
Customer Reviews
Most Recent Reviews
Wonderful
14/04/2009
I had heard that this was a masterpiece of travel writing and it was right. This was one of the most moving pieces I've had the fortune to listen to. Simply wonderful. The endurance shown by these men is an inspiration. When I have difficult times I simply look back to them and realise how much worse men have been through.
A complex book in need of a subtle reader
17/03/2007
This has long been a favourite book. Cherry was a very complex character with much going on beyond no doubt a stiff-upper lip facade - a Tory with GB Shaw as a great friend and a man pursued by severe depression when he returned from the pole. The complexity is all there in the book and needs a skilled reader. This reader has the stiff upper lip manner with none of the subtlety.
