The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910–1913

Abstract

THIS is the sixth book to give the story, or part of the story, of Capt. Scott's last expedition, and it is in some ways the most remarkable of them all. Mr. Cherry-Garrard took part in three of the worst journeys ever made in the Antarctic or anywhere else, and the iron of his sufferings has entered into his soul and imparted a ferric quality to his recollections. He writes often with a forceful epigrammatic directness that makes one gasp; again he falls back into pages of rather heavy going, for his quotations from the other books on the expedition are very numerous, albeit they are well chosen. The very first paragraph of the preface sets the keynote of simulated cynicism and paradox.

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910–1913.

By Apsley Cherry-Garrard. (In 2 vols.) Vol. 1. Pp. lxiv + 300 + 4 + 30 plates + 4 maps. Vol. 2. Pp. viii + 301–585 + 28 plates + 1 map. (London, Bombay, and Sydney: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 63s. net.