The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | "The Worst Journey in the World," Polar binding

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. London: Constable and Company Limited, 1922


2 vols., 8vo (224 x 138 mm). 5 maps, 4 folding, 10 folding panoramas, 36 photographic illustrations on 27 plates, 26 sketches on 23 plates, 6 colored; occasional light spotting. Linen-backed blue paper boards, paper label to spines, pair of labels tipped in; labels slightly creased.


A fine copy in the Polar binding, Cherry-Garrard's chosen binding.


“The best-written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic (continuously in print the past 78 years)” (Taurus Collection).


REFERENCES:

Rosove 71.A1; Spence 277; Taurus Collection 84

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