The Worst Journey in the World, Volume 1: Making Our Easting Down - Bog

"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 ad 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?"--Publisher description.