The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. Antarctic,Biology,Polar

First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. lxiv, 300, [4, Appendix] & viii, 302-585; coloured frontis. to each vol., plates from photographs and illusts. inc. 10 folding panoramas; several panoramas misfolded as often, with subsequent fraying to leading margin of 3 panoramas, and repair to fold of one panorama (vol. 1, p. 184); some foxing, occasional pencil marginalia, else good in original linen-backed grey boards, paper labels to spines, spare labels tipped-in to flyleaf of each, some creasing to spines and chipping to labels, foxing to boards, which are also slightly worn. Cherry-Garrard volunteered for what was to become Captain Scott's last expedition in 1907, when he met Scott and Edward Wilson at the home of his cousin, Reginald Smith, then manager of Scott's publisher Smith, Elder and Co. Cherry-Garrard accompanied the 1910 -13 Antarctic expedition as assistant biologist, and in this capacity he accompanied Wilson and 'Birdie' Bowers to Cape Crozier during the course of the expedition. The harrowing journey to and from the Cape to collect an unhatched Emperor penguin egg formed the basis for Cherry-Garrrard's The Worst Journey in the World, a book often considered not only as a highlight of the Antarctic literature, but of travel accounts in general.