And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.