Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1st Ed 1922 The Worst Journey in the World Vol. 2 HC

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George H Doran and Company, New York. 1922. Volume II: viii, 301-585 pgs. Illustrated with, 6 coloured plates, 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps, 3 folding. First Edition/First Printing.Bound in original linen-backed blue boards with paper labels to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities (stain present to the spine). Bookplate present to the reverse of the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Bound in original linen-backed blue boards with paper labels to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities (stain present to the spine). Bookplate present to the reverse of the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "It was perhaps the only real stroke of luck in Scott's ill fated [Terra Nova] expedition that Cherry-Garrard, the one survivor of the winter journey, happened to be able to describe it so effectively that the reader forgets how comfortable he is in his arm-chair, and remembers the tale with a shiver as if he had been through it himself." - George Bernard Shaw. Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1st Ed 1922 The Worst Journey in the World Vol. 2 HC Click images to enlarge Description Up For Sale Today is The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Volume II by Apsley Cherry-Garrard With Map and Illustrations by the Late Dr Edmund Wilson and Other Members of the Expedition Hardcover. 8vo. Published by George H Doran and Company, New York. 1922. Volume II: viii, 301-585 pgs. Illustrated with, 6 coloured plates, 10 folding panoramas, 5 maps, 3 folding. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in original linen-backed blue boards with paper labels to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities (stain present to the spine). Bookplate present to the reverse of the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "It was perhaps the only real stroke of luck in Scott's ill fated [Terra Nova] expedition that Cherry-Garrard, the one survivor of the winter journey, happened to be able to describe it so effectively that the reader forgets how comfortable he is in his arm-chair, and remembers the tale with a shiver as if he had been through it himself." - George Bernard Shaw. FROM WIKIPEDIA: Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (2 January 1886 – 18 May 1959) was an English explorer of Antarctica. He was a member of the Terra Nova Expedition and is acclaimed for his historical account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World. Born in Lansdowne Road,[A] Bedford, as Apsley George Benet Cherry, the son and eldest child of Major General Apsley Cherry (later Cherry-Garrard) of Denford Park in Berkshire (later of Lamer Park in Hertfordshire where he became High Sheriff) and his wife, Evelyn Edith (née Sharpin), daughter of Henry Wilson Sharpin of Bedford. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford where he read Classics and Modern History. While at Oxford he rowed in the 1908 Christ Church crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. His surname was changed from Cherry to Cherry-Garrard by the terms of his great-aunt's will, through which his father inherited the enormous Lamer Park estate near Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire. Apsley inherited the estate on his father's death in 1907. Cherry-Garrard had always been enamoured by the stories of his father's achievements in India and China where he had fought with merit for the British Defence Forces, and felt that he must live up to his father's example. In September 1907, Dr Edward Adrian 'Bill' Wilson met with Captain Scott at Reginald Smith's home in Cortachy, to discuss another Antarctic expedition; Smith's young cousin Apsley Cherry-Garrard happened to visit and decided to volunteer. In 1922, encouraged by his friend and neighbour G. Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World. Over 80 years later this book is still in print and is often cited as a classic of travel literature, having been acclaimed as the greatest true adventure story ever written. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. 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