The Worst Journey in the World by Cherry-Garrard, Apsley (9781849020909)

The Worst Journey in the World

by Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

Hardcover - English

A beautiful, fully illustated edition of Apsley Cherry-Garrard's wonderful record of the Worst Journey in the World. Cherry-Garrard does describe Scott's unsucessful attempt to be to first person to the South Pole, but this is not the "worst journey". This is the complete book--Volumes I and II and glossary.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1849020906

EAN

9781849020909

Publisher

BENEDICTION BOOKS

Publication Date

01 Oct 2008

Pages

556

Weight (kg)

0.98

Dimensions (cm)

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5

About Author

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was born in 1886 and educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford. At twenty-four he was one of the youngest members of Scott's British Antarctic Expedition. He served in the First World War until invalided out of the Navy in 1915, and during his convalescence started to write The Worst Journey in the World. He died in 1959.