The best narrative of a legendary voyage
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913. London, Chatto & Windus. 1965.
8vo. Original blue leather imitation boards, lettered in gilt, in original wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. xxxix, 584; frontispiece-portrait four maps (two on one folding sheet); spine of wrapper very lightly spotted, minimal offsetting from frontispiece, else near-fine.
First posthumous edition of this classic account of Scott's last expedition. This edition contains a new preface-cum-obituary by George Seaver, 'based on interviews and other primary sources' (Rosove) and four additional pages 300A to 300D with Professor Cossar Ewart's Report on the Emperor penguin eggs held at Edinburgh University.
Rosove 71.K1 ('significant edition').
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