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The Worst Journey in the World

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

First published 1922 · Epic Expeditions & True Adventure · 25 hr 15 min of audio · 59 chapters

Cherry-Garrard was twenty-four when he went to Antarctica with Scott. He writes about the winter journey to collect penguin eggs in total darkness at sixty below, and about what they found on the way back.

Things worth knowing

  • The winter party took nineteen days to reach the emperor penguin colony and collect five eggs, two of which broke on the way back.
  • Sidney Harmer, the museum's Keeper of Zoology, called Cherry-Garrard's account of his reception devoid of any semblance to the truth, but Scott's sister Grace had been with him on a later visit and confirmed the custodians' behaviour in writing.
  • The Scott Polar Research Institute holds three leaves of correspondence between Cherry-Garrard and George Bernard Shaw, dated 1919 to 1922, including a set of rules for punctuation written out by Shaw.

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  1. 1 Author's Note 48 sec
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  2. 2 Preface 7 min
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  3. 3 Introduction, Part One 31 min
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  4. 4 Introduction, Part Two 29 min
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  5. 5 Introduction, Part Three 29 min
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  6. 6 Introduction, Part Four 28 min
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  7. 7 Chapter One, Part One 28 min
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  8. 8 Chapter One, Part Two 26 min
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  9. 9 Chapter Two, Part One 29 min
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  10. 10 Chapter Two, Part Two 28 min
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  11. 11 Chapter Three, Part One 24 min
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  12. 12 Chapter Three, Part Two 24 min
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  13. 13 Chapter Three, Part Three 23 min
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  14. 14 Chapter Four, Part One 28 min
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  15. 15 Chapter Four, Part Two 27 min
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  16. 16 Chapter Five, Part One 33 min
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  17. 17 Chapter Five, Part Two 28 min
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  18. 18 Chapter Five, Part Three 29 min
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  19. 19 Chapter Five, Part Four 29 min
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  20. 20 Chapter Five, Part Five 29 min
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  21. 21 Chapter Five, Part Six 29 min
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  22. 22 Chapter Six, Part One 31 min
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  23. 23 Chapter Six, Part Two 30 min
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  24. 24 Chapter Six, Part Three 32 min
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  25. 25 Chapter Six, Part Four 31 min
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  26. 26 Chapter Seven, Part One 29 min
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  27. 27 Chapter Seven, Part Two 30 min
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  28. 28 Chapter Seven, Part Three 29 min
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  29. 29 Chapter Seven, Part Four 28 min
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  30. 30 Chapter Seven, Part Five 28 min
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  31. 31 Chapter Seven, Part Six 30 min
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  32. 32 Chapter Eight, Part One 19 min
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  33. 33 Chapter Eight, Part Two 17 min
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  34. 34 Chapter Nine 2 min
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  35. 35 Chapter One, Part One 28 min
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  36. 36 Chapter One, Part Two 24 min
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  37. 37 Chapter One, Part Three 24 min
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  38. 38 Chapter Ten, Part One 21 min
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  39. 39 Chapter Ten, Part Two 20 min
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  40. 40 Chapter Eleven 28 min
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  41. 41 Chapter Twelve 1 min
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  42. 42 Chapter Four, Part One 33 min
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  43. 43 Chapter Four, Part Two 30 min
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  44. 44 Chapter Thirteen, Part One 34 min
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  45. 45 Chapter Thirteen, Part Two 30 min
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  46. 46 Chapter Fourteen, Part One 29 min
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  47. 47 Chapter Fourteen, Part Two 27 min
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  48. 48 Chapter Fifteen 29 min
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  49. 49 Chapter Sixteen, Part One 27 min
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  50. 50 Chapter Sixteen, Part Two 27 min
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  51. 51 Chapter Seventeen 1 min
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  52. 52 Chapter Five, Part One 25 min
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  53. 53 Chapter Five, Part Two 24 min
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  54. 54 Chapter Five, Part Three 24 min
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  55. 55 Chapter Eighteen, Part One 19 min
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  56. 56 Chapter Eighteen, Part Two 19 min
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  57. 57 Chapter Nineteen, Part One 30 min
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  58. 58 Chapter Nineteen, Part Two 29 min
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  59. 59 Chapter Nineteen, Part Three 29 min
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First published in 1922, which places the book in the public domain in the United States. Apsley Cherry-Garrard died in 1959, so in countries that protect a work for seventy years after the author's death it becomes free on 1 January 2030. Open Ear Books offers this recording only where it is free to offer.

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