The Worst Journey in the World (Penguin Classics) |
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Author:
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
By Penguin Books
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 919.8904 EAN: 9780143039389 ISBN: 0143039385 Label: Penguin Books Manufacturer: Penguin Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 688 Publication Date: 2006-03 Publisher: Penguin Books Studio: Penguin Books |
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    The Best Book in the World, 2006-06-06 Astonishing...truly awe inspiring. It will be a long time before I read a book as good as this again.
    The Worst Journey in the World, 2006-08-18 This moving book of human courage, companionship and self sacrifice is the greatest I have ever read. The haunted, emotive words of the youngest man of the expedition, Cherry Garrard, leap across the years, making it both tragic and gripping, heroic and uplifting, and with final diary enteries of his dying comrades included, heart rendering. A true story of not only the toughest expediton to the South Pole but an account full of human warmth for the men who undertook the journey. At its conclusion one is left by the sense of deep admiration for those who reached beyond their normal selves, against overwhelming odds to achieve the impossible, not for riches, nor fame, but for the sake of universal human knowledge and achievement. My favourite book of all.
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