Eggs, emperors and empire: Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s ‘Worst journey’ as imperial quest Romance
Antarctic exploration in the ‘Heroic Era’ (the early twentieth century) is often represented as the last gasp of British imperialism — an attempt to occupy empty, uninhabited and more-or-less useless territory at a time when the rest of the empire was beginning to crumble.1 Of British Heroic-Era exp...
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ftunivwollongong:oai:ro.uow.edu.au:kunapipi-1285 2023-05-15T13:57:42+02:00 Eggs, emperors and empire: Apsley Cherry-Garrard’s ‘Worst journey’ as imperial quest Romance Leane, Elizabeth 2014-07-01T05:00:05Z application/pdf https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol31/iss2/4 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1285&context=kunapipi unknown Research Online https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol31/iss2/4 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1285&context=kunapipi Kunapipi Arts and Humanities text 2014 ftunivwollongong 2020-02-25T12:11:06Z Antarctic exploration in the ‘Heroic Era’ (the early twentieth century) is often represented as the last gasp of British imperialism — an attempt to occupy empty, uninhabited and more-or-less useless territory at a time when the rest of the empire was beginning to crumble.1 Of British Heroic-Era exploits, three stories in particular preoccupy the present popular imagination2: Robert F. Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Pole with his four companions, as famously related in his posthumously published journal; a slightly earlier journey to Cape Crozier by three of Scott’s expedition members in search of Emperor penguins’ eggs, as told by Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a chapter of his 1922 travel memoir The Worst Journey in the World; and the story of Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans- Antarctic Expedition, in which his ship, The Endurance, was imprisoned and later crushed by ice, leaving the men to survive on ice-floes and a subantarctic island. Text Antarc* Antarctic Emperor penguins University of Wollongong, Australia: Research Online Antarctic Cape Crozier ENVELOPE(169.400,169.400,-77.517,-77.517) Cherry-Garrard ENVELOPE(168.683,168.683,-71.300,-71.300) Crozier ENVELOPE(169.400,169.400,-77.517,-77.517) |
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Antarctic exploration in the ‘Heroic Era’ (the early twentieth century) is often represented as the last gasp of British imperialism — an attempt to occupy empty, uninhabited and more-or-less useless territory at a time when the rest of the empire was beginning to crumble.1 Of British Heroic-Era exploits, three stories in particular preoccupy the present popular imagination2: Robert F. Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Pole with his four companions, as famously related in his posthumously published journal; a slightly earlier journey to Cape Crozier by three of Scott’s expedition members in search of Emperor penguins’ eggs, as told by Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a chapter of his 1922 travel memoir The Worst Journey in the World; and the story of Ernest Shackleton’s Imperial Trans- Antarctic Expedition, in which his ship, The Endurance, was imprisoned and later crushed by ice, leaving the men to survive on ice-floes and a subantarctic island. |
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