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The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913.

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Book Description

First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. lxiv, 300, [4, Appendix] & viii, 302-585; coloured frontis. to each vol., plates from photographs and illusts. inc. 10 folding panoramas; light embrowning to endpapers, else very good in original linen-backed grey boards, paper labels to spines, spare labels tipped-in to flyleaf of each, slight creasing to spines, foxing to boards, but an above average and comparatively clean copy.
Dealer Notes
Spence 277; Renard 304; Rosove 71.A1. Cherry-Garrard volunteered for what was to become Captain Scott’s last expedition in 1907, when he met Scott and Edward Wilson at the home of his cousin, Reginald Smith, then manager of Scott’s publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Cherry-Garrard accompanied the 1910 -13 Antarctic expedition as assistant biologist, and in this capacity he accompanied Wilson and ‘Birdie’ Bowers to Cape Crozier during the course of the expedition. The harrowing journey to and from the Cape to collect an unhatched Emperor penguin egg formed the basis for Cherry-Garrrard’s The Worst Journey in the World, a book often considered not only as a highlight of the Antarctic literature, but of travel accounts in general.
Author Cherry-Garrard, Apsley.
Date [1922]
Binding Original linen-backed boards
Publisher London: Constable and Company Limited
Condition See description
Pages lxiv, 300, [4, Appendix] & viii, 302-585

Price: £3250.00

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