Fortune's Favor: Scott In Antarctica
Fortune's Favor: Scott In Antarctica

Author: Kim Roberts

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-04-02

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13: 1329006216

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The award winning author's fourth book of poetry finds her meditating on the heroic journey of famed polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott (1868-1912). The poems are adapted from Scott's journals of the doomed Terra Nova expedition of 1910-13. Through "disciplined, beautifully descriptive verse" [Linda Pastan], Roberts creates an "epic that chronicles an expedition to the South Pole" [Francisco Aragon] which "has seldom been told with such formal control, flashes of color, and suspense." [Reginald Harris]"

The Spectator
The Spectator

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Publisher:

Published: 1909

Total Pages: 1140

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The Worst Journey in the World
The Worst Journey in the World

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-04

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Worst Journey in the World" (Antarctic 1910-1913) by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The Worst Journey in the World (Illustrated Edition)
The Worst Journey in the World (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 802689782X

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The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 1910–1913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. It was written by a member of the expedition, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning (if any) of human suffering under extreme conditions. In 1910, Cherry-Garrard and his fellow explorers travelled by sailing vessel, the Terra Nova, from Cardiff to McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. The second-in-command, Dr Edward Wilson had a personal goal in Antarctica to recover eggs of the Emperor penguin for scientific study. As the bird nests during the Antarctic winter, it was necessary to mount a special expedition in July 1911, to the penguins' rookery at Cape Crozier. Wilson chose Cherry-Garrard to accompany him and another crew member across the Ross Ice Shelf under conditions of complete darkness and temperatures of −40 °C and below. All three men, barely alive, returned from Cape Crozier with their egg specimens, which were stored.