APSLEY GEORGE BENET CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959) The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R.Clark for Contstable & Co. Ltd, 1922. 2 volumes. 8° (22.3 x 14.5cm.). Half-titles. 6 coloured plates, 10 folding panoramas (one with a small tear, repaired), 5 maps (4 folding) and 42 black and white plates (22 sketches and 33 photographs.) cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines (lightly soiled, spine slightly rubbed, small tears and creases to paper labels), later cloth slipcase. Provenance : Ruth Law (Author's presentation copy, with tipped-in note "From Cherry to Ruth. July 1925. NOTE. In cutting the pages mind you dont cut the folds of the maps and panoramas", with later inscription on half-title of vol. I: "Inscribed to Ruth Law by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. September 1927"). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. In 1910, hearing that Scott was planning a second Antarctic expedition Cherry-Garrard "wrote to Dr. E.A.Wilson ... volunteering his services ... he was accepted by Scott on Wilson's recommendation ... and enlisted as 'assistant zoologist'... On the Depôt Journey to lay stores ... as far as to One Ton Depôt 140 miles from base, [he] was warmly commended by Scott for his efficiency and unselfishness as a sledger and tent-mate... Wilson chose Bowers and Cherry-Garrard... as his companions for the Winter Journey in 1911 to the Emperor Penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, an exploit which is still without parallel in the annals of polar exploration. On their return five weeks later Scott described their journey as 'the hardest that has ever been made' -- a phrase which later suggested to Cherry-Garrard the title of his narrative of the fortunes of the whole expedition: The Worst Journey in the World ... He accompanied the polar party as far as the summit of the Beardmore Glacier whence he was sent back, because of his youth, with the first of the two supporting parties. Early in March 1912 he set out alone with dog-teams and a Russian dog-driver to speed the return of the polar party. Having reached One Ton Depôt on the night of the 3rd, the date approximately timed for their arrival, he was beset by a four days blizzard which prevented movement, but stayed on until there remained only just enough dog-food for return. Although his decision to return was the only possible one, he never ceased to reproach himself afterwards for not having attempted the impossible. He was a member of the search party eight months later which found the bodies of Scott, Wilson, and Bowers, who had died within eleven miles of One Ton Depôt"( DNB ). (2)
APSLEY GEORGE BENET CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959) The Worst Journey in the World, Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Bombay and Sydney: R.& R.Clark for Contstable & Co. Ltd, 1922. 2 volumes. 8° (22.3 x 14.5cm.). Half-titles. 6 coloured plates, 10 folding panoramas (one with a small tear, repaired), 5 maps (4 folding) and 42 black and white plates (22 sketches and 33 photographs.) cloth-backed boards, paper labels on spines (lightly soiled, spine slightly rubbed, small tears and creases to paper labels), later cloth slipcase. Provenance : Ruth Law (Author's presentation copy, with tipped-in note "From Cherry to Ruth. July 1925. NOTE. In cutting the pages mind you dont cut the folds of the maps and panoramas", with later inscription on half-title of vol. I: "Inscribed to Ruth Law by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. September 1927"). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. In 1910, hearing that Scott was planning a second Antarctic expedition Cherry-Garrard "wrote to Dr. E.A.Wilson ... volunteering his services ... he was accepted by Scott on Wilson's recommendation ... and enlisted as 'assistant zoologist'... On the Depôt Journey to lay stores ... as far as to One Ton Depôt 140 miles from base, [he] was warmly commended by Scott for his efficiency and unselfishness as a sledger and tent-mate... Wilson chose Bowers and Cherry-Garrard... as his companions for the Winter Journey in 1911 to the Emperor Penguin rookery at Cape Crozier, an exploit which is still without parallel in the annals of polar exploration. On their return five weeks later Scott described their journey as 'the hardest that has ever been made' -- a phrase which later suggested to Cherry-Garrard the title of his narrative of the fortunes of the whole expedition: The Worst Journey in the World ... He accompanied the polar party as far as the summit of the Beardmore Glacier whence he was sent back, because of his youth, with the first of the two supporting parties. Early in March 1912 he set out alone with dog-teams and a Russian dog-driver to speed the return of the polar party. Having reached One Ton Depôt on the night of the 3rd, the date approximately timed for their arrival, he was beset by a four days blizzard which prevented movement, but stayed on until there remained only just enough dog-food for return. Although his decision to return was the only possible one, he never ceased to reproach himself afterwards for not having attempted the impossible. He was a member of the search party eight months later which found the bodies of Scott, Wilson, and Bowers, who had died within eleven miles of One Ton Depôt"( DNB ). (2)
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