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. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, youngest member of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition and author of The Worst Journey in the World, said of his Captain, 'He will go down to history as the Englishman who conquered the South Pole and who died as fine a death as any man has had the honour to die. 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. 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. 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. The Worst Journey in the World 2007 58m Drama Advertisement Cast Mark Gatiss(Apsley Cherry-Garrard)John Arthur(Edward Bill Wilson)Lee Ingleby(Henry Birdie Bowers)Julia Dalkin(Angela. The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 by Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 1886-1959 Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912. 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. Read in English by Kevin Green The Worst Journey in the World is a memoir of the 19101913 British Antarctic Expedition led by Robert Falcon Scott. Both sexually and socially the polar explorer must make up his mind to be starved. LibriVox recording of The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. “committing suicide, both for your own sake and that of your companions.