![]() The following summer he accompanied Scott's polar party as far as the summit of the Beardmore Glacier, as planned. When at the base, Cherry-Garrard edited the camp newspaper, South Polar Times. "On their return five weeks later Scott described their journey as 'the hardest that has ever been made'-a phrase which later suggested to Cherry-Garrard the title of his narrative of the fortunes of the whole expedition: The Worst Journey in the World" (DNB). Wilson chose Bowers and Cherry-Garrard as his companions for a winter journey in 1911 to the base of Mount Terror to collect Emperor Penguin eggs. ![]() Housed in a custom clamshell box.įirst edition, rare first issue, of Cherry-Garrard's firsthand account of the most famous of Antarctic expeditions, richly illustrated with reproductions of sketches and photographs made by members of the crew (a number printed in color), five maps and ten folding panoramas.Ĭherry-Garrard served as assistant zoologist on Robert Scott's tragic 1910-12 expedition to Antarctica. Octavo, original half white cloth, gray paper boards, original paper spine labels, uncut. ![]() The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-13. "ONE OF THE CLASSICS OF ANTARCTIC LITERATURE": FIRST ISSUE OF CHERRY-GARRARD'S FAMED ACCOUNT, IN ORIGINAL BOARDSĬHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. ![]()
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