Stop What You’re Doing and Read…On a Journey: The Worst Journey in the World & The Road to Oxiana

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD &amp; THE ROAD TO OXIANA: Perhaps you're travelling to far-away places, or just on the way to work - these two stories of adventure and intrepid exploration will make any journey pass in the blink of an eye.

THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD - Probably the best adventure yarn ever published

THE ROAD TO OXIANA - A writer of breathtaking prose - prose whose sensuous, chiselled beauty has cast its spell on English travel writing ever since

Robert Byron was born in England in 1905 into a family distantly related to Lord Byron. He attended Eton and Merton College, Oxford, and wrote several other travel books before his untimely death in 1941 when his ship to West Africa was torpedoed while serving as a correspondent for a London newspaper during World War II. Among his other books are The Station (1928), The Byzantine Achievement (1929), and First Russia, Then Tibet (1933). 
 
Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic which he joined to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. After the expedition, Cherry-Garrard served in the First World War and was invalided home. With the zealous encouragement of his neighbour, George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World (1922) in an attempt to overcome the horror of the journey. As the years unravelled he faced a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.

To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook 'bundles', to tempt readers to discover and rediscover great books. 
 
THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD 
INTRODUCED BY SARA WHEELER 
A gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. One of the youngest members of Captain Scott's team, Apsley Cherry-Garrard was later part of the rescue party that found the frozen bodies of Scott and the three men who had accompanied him on the final push to the Pole. A masterpiece of travel writing, this is the most celebrated and compelling of all the books on Antarctic exploration. 
 
THE ROAD TO OXIANA 
In 1933, the delightfully eccentric Robert Byron set out on a journey through the Middle East via Beirut, Jerusalem, Baghdad and Teheran to Oxiana - part of the border between what is now Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. This is the captivating, quirky record of his adventures and a rare account of the architectural treasures of a region now inaccessible to most Western travellers.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Probably the best adventure yarn ever published

The finest book ever written about Antarctic exploration as well as a great literary classic

Over the greater part of a lifetime I have worn out two copies of the Antarctic's classic, Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World

Ranked number 1 in National Geographic’s 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time

One of the world's greatest works of travel and adventure writing, reissued on its 100th birthday. 
 
This is a gripping account of an expedition gone disastrously wrong. Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Scott's team, recorded the experience of his adventure and in doing so created a masterpiece of travel writing. Despite the horrors that Scott and his men faced, Cherry's account is filled with details of scientific discovery, unforgettable descriptions of landscape and a belief in the spirit of human beings. A celebrated and compelling book on Antarctic exploration. 
 
INTRODUCED BY SARA WHEELER 
 
'The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel... a masterpiece' New York Review of Books 
 
* Voted Number 1 in National Geographic's 100 Best Adventure Books of All Time *

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Praise for The Worst Journey in the World

The best polar book there is

Probably the best adventure yarn ever published

Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel

The best polar book there is

Probably the best adventure yarn ever published

Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel

The best polar book there is

Probably the best adventure yarn ever published

Remains the masterpiece of heroic travel

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