The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

To normal people like ourselves living under abnormal circumstances Nature could do much to lift our thoughts out of the rut of everyday affairs, but she loses much of her healing power when she cannot be seen, but only felt, and when that feeling is intensely uncomfortable. I am told that when confronted by a lunatic or one who under the influence of some great grief or shock contemplates suicide, you should take that man out-of-doors and walk him about: Nature will do the rest. Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. Life in such surroundings is both mentally and physically cramped open-air exercise is restricted and in blizzards quite impossible, and you realize how much you lose by your inability to see the world about you when you are out-of-doors. The Worst Journey in the World By: Apsley Cherry-Garrard Narrated by: Simon Vance Length: 20 hrs and 6 mins 4.4 (682 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scotts Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 19101913. And the darkness, accompanied it may be almost continually by howling blizzards which prevent you seeing your hand before your face.

Night after night I bought big buns and chocolate at a stall on the island platform at Hatfield station, but always woke before I got a mouthful to my lips some companions who were not so highly strung were more fortunate, and ate their phantom meals. To what extent can hard work, or what may be called dramatic imagination, provide a substitute? Compare our thoughts on the march our food dreams at night the primitive way in which the loss of a crumb of biscuit may give a lasting sense of grievance. Both sexually and socially the polar explorer must make up his mind to be starved. “committing suicide, both for your own sake and that of your companions. The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 19101913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott.

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard