The year 2022 is when we celebrate the centennial of the publication of one of the most complete (and terrifying) accounts of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, a period of extreme expeditions to the continent between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The reader has only to start reading the first few pages to conclude that the book's title, "The Worst Journey in the World," was no exaggeration.
The work was written by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the 65 crew members of the Newfoundland Expedition (1910-13), led by English explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who was . . .
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