By Alex Kurtagic 0

The Worst Journey in the World

The Worst Journey in the WorldApsley Cherry-GarrardLondon: Pimlico, 2003I remember watching the 1948 film Scott of the Antarctic at some point in the early 1990s and marveling both at its grimness and the sheer Englishness of its sensibilities. The film dramatizes Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s successful but ultimately tragic South Polar Journey, undertaken in 1911 during his...