The Worst Journey in the World, Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down
The Graphic Novel
by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Sarah Airriess
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Pub Date Oct 08 2024 | Archive Date Not set
Letter Better Publishing Services | Iron Circus Comics
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Description
"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.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781638991373 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 236 |
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Featured Reviews
Laura T, Reviewer
I will start by saying that if you are in the UK, this book has been out since December 2022. However, if you are in North America, and didn’t want to buy overseas, you only have to wait until October 8th to get this revised edition of the first volume of the graphic novel version of the Worst Journey in the World. The new revised version has a spectacular cover, and the artwork inside has been tweaked for accuracy. (Such as the characters wearing dress whites when they went ashore)
The Worst Journey in the World is about a south polar expedition that went terribly wrong. Based on the memoir of one of the polar explorers, Sarah Airriess did amazing research to bring out just this first volume of the story. She even traveled to the Antarctic to get the feel for the place, so to speak.
You can read it two ways. You can read it straight through for the incredible story that it is. Or you can read it along with the, not so much foot notes as amazingly well crafted annotations to each page, where she explains the *why* behind how she did what she did. The things she left out. The things she included. The songs that were sung.
The author not only read original notes, diaries, papers, but also spent time in Antarctica, to get the feel, to get the knowledge to write what she knew.
We don’t get into the worse things that will happen, though the opening does hint at them.
This very much explores how the British thought they were it. That they had to explore. That it was their right, and their privilege, and this was what you did as white upper middle class gentleman. Should they not have gone? No. This was what they did.
So innocent, and so naive.
An amazing story, first published years after the journey, and now the graphic novel version was published a little over 100 years after the original publication.
I can’t wait for volume 2. This is very much a keeper.
Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. The North American edition of the book is coming out October 8, 2024
