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Publicado por National Geographic Society, 2002
ISBN 10: 079226634XISBN 13: 9780792266341
Librería: Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller, New Castle, CO, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: As New. "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty introduction to this classic story of bravery and fortitude first published in 1922. The story he relates is of Scott's last expedition to the Antarctic, from its departure from England in 1910 to its arrival in New Zealand in 1913; it is one of the most famous and tragic in the annals of exploration. Driven by an obsession for scientific knowledge, these brave polar explorers embarked on a journey into the unknown, testing their endurance by pushing themselves to the ultimate physical and mental limits as they surveyed the striking and mammoth land that lies far to the south.Cherry-Garrard was himself a member of the expedition that had two goals: to discover as much as was scientifically possible about the terrain and habitat of Antarctica, and to be the first to reach the South Pole. The party was plagued by bad luck, weather conditions of unanticipated ferocity, and the physical deterioration of the party on the last part of the journey. Confronted by the shattering knowledge that Roald Amundsen had reached the South Pole a month before them, Scott's party then had to negotiate the last, heroic part of their journey, a doomed attempt which has entered modern mythology. The Worst Journey in the World is the inside story of this most famous of journeys and is truly one of the best and most moving books of travel ever written. Join Scott's expedition as he and his team venture deep into the frozen unknown.
Publicado por National Geographic, Washington, D. C., 2002
ISBN 10: 079226634XISBN 13: 9780792266341
Librería: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, Estados Unidos de America
Libro
Softcover. Condición: Very Good-. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. Oftcover. Spine creased. Light rubbing on cover corners and spine extremities. Else covers clean. A couple small spots on page edges. Small bookplate on 1st blank page, and a small inked note on the last blank page. Very light bumping on page bottom corners. ; EXT21A; 561 pages.