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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| Online Access: | https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol31/iss2/4 https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1285&context=kunapipi |