author
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
1886–1959
An Antarctic explorer and gifted memoirist, he is best remembered for turning one of the harshest expeditions in history into a vivid, deeply human classic. His writing brings polar hardship, friendship, and loss to life with unusual honesty.
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The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
About the author
Born in England in 1886, Apsley Cherry-Garrard joined Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to Antarctica while still a young man. He became one of the expedition’s survivors and later helped preserve its story for a wide audience.
He is most closely associated with The Worst Journey in the World (1922), his account of the expedition and the brutal winter journey to Cape Crozier. The book has endured not just as a record of exploration, but as a moving work of literature, admired for its clarity, candor, and emotional force.
Cherry-Garrard died in 1959, but his reputation has lasted far beyond the heroic age of polar travel. For many readers, he remains one of the essential voices of Antarctic history: observant, humane, and unforgettable.