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- The Best Books About AntarcticaReading list
Written by the youngest member of Robert Falcon Scott’s doomed 1910–1913 expedition, this is both a firsthand account of Scott’s fatal race to the South Pole and one of the strangest survival stories in exploration history: a mid-winter trek made in complete darkness and temperatures below -60°F, undertaken purely to…
- The Best Books About ExplorersReading list
The Worst Journey in the World is one of the best books about explorers. The book is about Apsley Cherry-Garrard, an English explorer who was part of Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1910-1913. The expedition is best known for its tragic ending, with Scott and his team dying from hunger and…
- Monique RoffeyInterview
I’d love to be aboard the Terra Nova in The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard; I’d love to be a part of that real-life adventure.
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