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Lot 220

CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY)
The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Constable & Co., 1922

14 September 2021, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY)

The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, half-titles, 48 plates (6 colour, 10 folding panoramas), 5 maps (4 folding), light spotting particularly to fore-edges, vol. 1 with 2 pages loose and panoramas roughly folded, publisher's cloth-backed blue-grey boards, paper spine labels, vol. 1 soiled and rubbed, vol. 2 with dust-jacket (soiled, short tears and small loss to blank area of lower panel) and additional label tipped-in [Spence 277; Taurus 84], 8vo, Constable & Co., 1922

Footnotes

First edition of a classic work of literature from the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, recounting Cherry-Garrard's Winter Journey, as part of the Terra Nova expedition "to obtain specimen eggs from the emperor penguin rookery at Cape Crozier.... a hazardous round trip of 120 miles in darkness, at temperatures in excess of -70 °F, an exploit which is still without parallel in the annals of polar exploration... later Scott described their journey as 'the hardest that has ever been made'" (ODNB).

Provenance: E.M. Kingdon, ownership inscriptions on front free endpapers dated Christmas 1922.

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