Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest
members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic which
he joined to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. After the
expedition, Cherry-Garrard served in the First World War and was
invalided home. With the zealous encouragement of his neighbour,
George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the
World (1922) in an attempt to overcome the horror of the
journey. As the years unravelled he faced a terrible struggle
against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the
possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.
Caroline Alexander has written for The New Yorker, Granta,
Condé Nast Traveler, Smithsonian, Outside, and National Geographic
and is the author of four previous books.
"The Worst Journey in the World is to travel writing what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece." —The New York Review of Books
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