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by Sarah Airriess (Adapted by), Sarah Airriess (Artist)
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." -- Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Before the Pole . . .
Before Antarctica . . .
Before everything went wrong . . .
It's June 1910, and Cherry, inexperienced and unqualified, has just joined Captain Scott's new expedition to the South Pole. Simply getting to Antarctica turns out to be an adventure. As they sail the Terra Nova through one trial after another, the scientists and Navy men learn to work as a team - but are they a match for the fury of the Southern Ocean, which threatens to sink the expedition before it even begins?
Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD as a testament to his companions and the experiences they shared. Humanizing one of the most famous epics of exploration, his 1922 book is still regarded today as one of the finest works of adventure literature ever written. The people and their daring exploits are brought vividly back to life in this exhilarating graphic novel adaptation.
Author Biography
Sarah Airriess trained as an animator in Canada and has worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and London. At the age of 26, she heard a radio dramatization of The Worst Journey in the World, which led her to throw away her career and move to England to make the graphic novel. She went to Antarctica in 2019 with the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program and is currently an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.
