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The Worst Journey in the World : Antarctic, 1910-1913, PDF eBook

The Worst Journey in the World : Antarctic, 1910-1913 PDF

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Inside was pandemonium. Most men had gone to bed, and I have a blurred memory of men in pyjamas and dressing-gowns getting hold of me and trying to get the chunks of armour which were my clothes to leave my body.

Finally they cut them Off and threw them into an angular heap at the foot of my bunk.

Next morning they were a sodden mass weighing 24 lbs.

Bread and jam, and cocoa; showers of questions; You know this is the hardest journey ever made, from Scott a broken record of George Robey on the gramophone which started us laugh ing until in our weak state We found it difficult to stop.

I have no doubt that I had not stood the journey as well as Wilson: my jaw had dropped when I came in, so they tell me.

Then into my warm blanket bag, and I managed to keep awake just long enough to think that Paradise must feel something like this.

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