Author: Wheeler, Sara
Title: Cherry, a Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Signed)
Description: London, England, Jonathan Cape, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 6 x 9.4 in. pp. 354. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black and white photographs. SIgned by the author on title page. Black boards with silver title to spine. Endpaper photograph of Antarctic scene. Very light age-toning to paper. Protected in mylar. Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Robert Scott's final (and for Scott, fatal) expedition to Antarctica who undertook the journey in 1911 to study the emperor penguin. In 1922, he wrote about his adventure in the well-recieved "The Worst Journey in the World." The "bitter brilliance and elegiac melancholy of Cherry's prose has touched the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers.. In his work Cherry transformed tragedy and grief into something fine. But he was to find that life is more complicated than literature, and 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." (from the dustjacket). Very Good Plus / Near FIne .
Keywords: Antarctic Expedition, the Worst Journey in the World, Robert Scott, Penguins
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Title: Cherry, a Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Signed)
Description: London, England, Jonathan Cape, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 6 x 9.4 in. pp. 354. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black and white photographs. SIgned by the author on title page. Black boards with silver title to spine. Endpaper photograph of Antarctic scene. Very light age-toning to paper. Protected in mylar. Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) was one of the youngest members of Robert Scott's final (and for Scott, fatal) expedition to Antarctica who undertook the journey in 1911 to study the emperor penguin. In 1922, he wrote about his adventure in the well-recieved "The Worst Journey in the World." The "bitter brilliance and elegiac melancholy of Cherry's prose has touched the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers.. In his work Cherry transformed tragedy and grief into something fine. But he was to find that life is more complicated than literature, and 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." (from the dustjacket). Very Good Plus / Near FIne .
Keywords: Antarctic Expedition, the Worst Journey in the World, Robert Scott, Penguins
Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: Aardvark Books
- Book number: 85744
- Book number: 85744
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