{"id":945,"date":"2023-09-02T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T19:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/?p=945"},"modified":"2024-02-07T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:30:00","slug":"the-worst-journey-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/?p=945","title":{"rendered":"The Worst Journey in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My 2023 New Year\u2019s resolution was to learn as much as possible about the Heroic age of Polar Exploration (1897 to 1922). Nine months, and several books later I have just completed my final book and what a read it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of Captain Scott\u2019s Tera Nova Expedition whose ultimate aim was to reach the South Pole. This they did but perished on the return journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apsley Cherry-Garrard was the youngest member of the Expedition and <a><\/a>later part of the rescue party team that found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the horrors that Scott and his men eventually faced, Cherry-Garrard&#8217;s account is filled with details of scientific discovery and anecdotes of human resilience in a harsh environment, supported by diary excerpts and accounts from other explorers. The Worst Journey in the World is the most celebrated and compelling of all the books on Antarctic exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/shackleton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"701\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/shackleton.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-946\" style=\"width:377px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/shackleton.jpg 526w, http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/htdocs\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/shackleton-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2023 New Year\u2019s resolution was to learn as much as possible about the Heroic age of Polar Exploration (1897 to 1922). Nine months, and several books later I have just completed my final book and what a read it was. The Worst Journey in the World is a gripping account of Captain Scott\u2019s Tera [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bigfoot-lives.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}