The Ted Benttinen Library of Exploration and Adventure

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley | "The Worst Journey in the World," with a presentation copy of his Postscript

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Cherry-Garrard, Apsley 

The Worst Journey in the World. New York: George H. Doran Company, [1922]


2 vols., 8vo (214 x 141 mm). Color and black-and-white maps and illustrations. Linen-backed blue paper boards, paper label to spines. Dust-jackets; restored at head and foot of spine, spines sunned.


First US edition.


[With:] Postscript to The Worst Journey in the World. Printed for the Author, 1951. 8vo (234 x 149 mm). Wrappers. Clamshell box.


Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in November 1951.


"The best-written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic (continuously in print the past 78 years)" (Taurus Collection). Cherry-Garrard suffered from intense survivors guilt, leading him to publish this postscript thirty-five years after his Worst Journey.

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