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The Worst Journey in the World [Volume Two only]

Name: The Worst Journey in the World [Volume Two only]
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Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

by Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

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London: Constable and Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. (1929). Hardcover. No tears or chips to the cloth. No splitting to hinges. Previous owner's signature in pencil, and some annotations and underlining in light pencil to a few pages (these could be erased quite easily). Moderate darkening and foxing to the cloth of the front board, along the upper margin and the fore margin. Moderate foxing to page edges. A few spots of foxing internally. Small contemporary bookseller's label on front endpaper "Newbold's Bookshop [. . .] Dunedin". A couple of small 1/2" abrasions to rear endpaper. The folding map has a couple of small stains, and also a 1" tear to the blank stub.; Volume Two only of two volumes. This is the 1929 reprint of the second edition. viii, (301)-585 pages + colour frontispiece + 23 illustrations on 18 plate leaves + 1 folding map. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 219 x 143mm. ; 8vo .

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APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Captain Scott's final expedition to the Antarctic which he joined to collect the eggs of the Emperor penguin. After the expedition, Cherry-Garrard served in the First World War and was invalided home. With the zealous encouragement of his neighbour, George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World (1922) in an attempt to overcome the horror of the journey. As the years unravelled he faced a terrible struggle against depression, breakdown and despair, haunted by the possibility that he could have saved Scott and his companions.

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Bookseller: Renaissance Books (NZ)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 14093
Title: The Worst Journey in the World [Volume Two only]
Author: Cherry-Garrard, Apsley
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Publisher: Constable and Company
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: (1929)

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We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.

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