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

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

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.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

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

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