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The Worst Journey In The WorldEditions
ReviewIt is probably to Travel Writing what 'War and Peace' is to the Novel, not least for its length. It starts with the often quoted : "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised," and ends with a paean to impracticality: "For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which does not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." Wonderful! - review by Marzena Pogorzaly |
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