The Worst Journey in the World

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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. ---------- Contains: - [Worst Journey in the World: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18027997W) - [Worst Journey in the World: 2/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24569906W)

subjects: British discovery and exploration,  Adélie penguins,  Aurora borealis,  marine biology,  bilizzards,  blubber,  Challenger Expedition,  snow-blindness,  Discovery Expedition,  dogs,  dolphins,  Emperor Penguins,  Equator,  symptoms of scurvy,  Helminthology,  Hyperoodon rostrata,  ice,  icebergs,  Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition,  mules,  Kayaks,  killer whales,  land crabs,  mirages,  Œstrelata arminjoniana,  Œstrelata trinitatis,  oil,  Orca gladiator,  Antarctic Petrel,  black-breasted petrel,  giant petrel,  snowy petrel,  white-breasted petrel,  plankton,  Polychaete worms,  Manchurian ponies,  Portuguese man-of-war,  Ptomaine poisoning,  Scott's Last Expedition,  sea-cucumber,  sea leopard,  sea-urchins,  seals,  crab-eating seal,  Ross seal,  Weddell Seal,  Skua gulls,  sledge meters,  sledge runners,  sledges,  South Polar Times,  Temperature,  Tremasome,  waves,  whales,  Blue Whale,  Bottle-nosed Whale,  killer whale,  piked whale,  brash,  crusts,  finneksko,  frost smoke,  ice-foot,  nunatak,  piedmont,  saennegrass,  sastrugi,  tide crack,  wind,  Nature,  Science,  Travel,  Nonfiction,  Open Library Staff Picks,  History,  Discovery and exploration,  British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition (1910-1913),  penguins,  British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913),  British,  British discoveries in geography,  Scott, robert falcon, 1868-1912,  British antarctic ("terra nova") expedition (1910-1913),  Antarctica, discovery and exploration,  British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition (1910-1913) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50049882,  Great britain, history, 20th century

People: Apsley Cherry-Garrard,  Robert Falcon Scott,  George P. Abbott,  Roald Amundsen,  W.W. Archer,  Edward L. Atkinson,  J.M. Barrie,  Mrs. Bowers,  Frank V. Browning,  Wilfred M. Bruce,  Victor Campbell,  Thomas Clissold,  James Cook,  Thomas Crean,  Professor David,  Francis Davies,  Bernard C. Day,  Frank Debenham,  G. W. DeLong,  Harry Dickason,  Dimitri,  Frank Drake,  Edward Evans,  Edgar Evans,  Robert Forde,  Mr. Forster,  John Franklin,  Professor Geelmuyden,  A. W. Greely,  Douglas Haig,  Edmund Halley,  Joseph D. Hooker,  F. J. Hopper,  Patrick Keohane,  J. J. Kinsey,  E. F. Knight,  W. Lashly,  G. Murray Levick,  Denis G. Lillie,  F. L. M'Clintock,  Clements Markham,  Cecil H. Meares,  A. A. Milne,  Fridtjof Nansen,  G. S. Nares,  W. H. Neale,  Edward W. Nelson,  L. E. G. Oates,  W. E. Parry,  R. E. Peary,  Harry L. L. Pennell,  Herbert G. Ponting,  Raymond E. Priestley,  George Pulleyn,  James C. Ross,  G. C. Simpson,  O. N. Sverdrup,  Griffith Taylor,  James Weddell,  Frank Wild,  Charles Wilkes,  Thomas S. Williamson,  E. A. Wilson,  Mrs. Wilson,  Charles S. Wright,  R. F. Scott (1868-1912),  Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912

Places: Antarctica,  Cape Crozier,  England,  New Zealand,  South Africa,  The Beardmore Glacier,  Adam Mountains,  Cape Adare,  Bay of Whales,  Cape Armitage,  South Trinidad,  Hutton Cliffs,  Barne Glacier,  Beaufort Island,  Cape Bernacchi,  Cape Bird,  Mt. Bird,  Bird Peninsula,  Biscuit Depot,  Black Island,  Blacksand Beach,  Bluff Depot,  Western Mountains,  Brown Island,  Buckley Island,  Butter Point,  Wales,  Cardiff,  Castle Rock,  Cape Colbeck,  Corner Camp,  Crater Heights,  Mt. Darwin,  Dellbridge Islands,  Derrick Point,  Disaster Camp,  Mt. Discovery,  Drygalski Ice Tongue,  Dunedin,  Dunlop Island,  Mt. Erebus,  Cape Evans,  Evans Coves,  Ferrar Glacier,  Fodder Depot,  Franklin Island,  Granite Harbour,  Great Razorback Island,  Hell's Gate,  Hobart,  Tasmania,  Mt. Hooker,  Mt. Hopper,  Mt. Hope,  Hope Island,  Horesehoe Bay,  Hut Point,  Hut Point Peninsula,  Antarctic Ice Cap,  Inaccessible Island,  Inexpressible Island,  Island Lake,  Cape Jones,  Keltie Glacier,  Mt. Kyffin,  Mt. Lister,  Lower Glacier Depot,  Lyttleton,  McMurdo Sound,  South Magnetic Pole,  Mt. Markham,  Marshall Mountains,  Mt. Melbourne,  Middle Barrier Depot,  Mill Glacier,  Minna Bluff,  Mt. Morning,  Mt. Nansen,  North Bay,  Oamaru,  Observation Hill,  One and a Half Degree Depôt,  One Ton Depôt,  South Pole,  Polheim,  Pram Point,  Cape Roberts,  Ross Island,  Ross Sea,  Cape Royds,  Mt. Sabine,  Safety Camp,  Camp Shambles,  Simon's Bay,  Ski Slope,  Skua Lake,  Southern Barrier Depôt,  Tent Island,  Terra Australis,  Terra Nova Bay,  Terra Nova,  Mt. Terror,  Terror Point,  Three Degree Depôt,  Turk's Head,  Turtleback Island,  Upper Barrier Depôt,  Upper Glacier Depôt,  Victoria Land,  White Island,  Wild Mountains,  Wind Vane Hill,  Antarctic regions

Times: 1910-1913