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Author:
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley
Title:The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913. Publisher:
London: Chatto & Windus, 1937.
Notes:
Cherry-Garrard's first-hand account of the most famous of Antarctic expeditions,
richly illustrated with reproductions of sketches and photographs made by members
of the crew. One of the most sought after, and most difficult to find, accounts in
the polar canon, this is the dramatic and splendidly written account of Captain
Robert F. Scott's 1910-12 expedition to Antarctica.
The author, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, served as assistant zoologist on
the voyage. The expedition set sail from London in 1910, proceeding by
way of New Zealand to the Antarctic. While Scott with a sledge party set out
for the South Pole, Cherry-Garrard and two companions made for the base of
Mount Terror to collect Emperor Penguin eggs; it was a journey so difficult
that Cherry-Garrard termed it (rather than the main expedition) The Worst
Journey in the World. Scott arrived at the Pole to find that a Norwegian
team had beaten him there by a month; on the return journey, plagued by blizzards
and illness, the sledge party perished near One Ton Depot, where their bodies and
diaries were found eight months later by a search party that included Cherry-Garrard.
Cherry-Garrard's Scarce and Dramatic Memoir of Captain Scott's Perilous Antarctic expedition!
Condition:
8vo, one Volume Edition. lxiv; 585 pages, including plates and fold out sketch maps.
Second issue of the 1937 Chatto Windus edition. In publisher's original blue cloth
with all titles lettered in black to front and spine.
Spine sunned, some foxing, otherwise in Very Good condition.
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