The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913, Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. Published by Chatto & Windus, London, 1939. One Volume edition. 8vo up to 9½” tall. pp. xxxix, 584; frontispiece-portrait, preface, introduction by the author, postscript, glossary and index, 9 illustrations, 4 maps. Blue cloth on boards with black titles. Pencil marks to free endpaper; taped related newspaper article to rear pastedown; rear blank endpaper missing lower half of page. Rubbing to board edges. In very good condition.
A 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatment of the difficulties of the expedition, the causes of its disastrous outcome, and the meaning of human suffering under extreme conditions.
