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Cherry by Sara Wheeler
Apsley Cherry-Garrard was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's legendary expedition to Antarctica, the last man sent out to meet Captain Scott and his men in February 1912, when they were expected to return victorious any day from the South Pole. He embarked on his own epic journey into the Antarctic winter to collect eggs of the Emperor penguin. It was dark all the time, his teeth shattered, and the tent blew away in the cold. But we kept our tempers, he wrote, even with God. After serving in the First World War, with zealous encouragement from his neighbor George Bernard Shaw, Cherry wrote the undisputed masterpiece of polar literature, The Worst Journey in the World. But as the years progressed, he faced a terrible struggle against depression and despair. Sara Wheeler's Cherry is the first biography of this great hero of Antarctic exploration, written with unrestricted access to his papers and with the full cooperation of his family.Sara Wheeler, like Denys Finch Hatton, attended Brasenose College in Oxford. Terra Incognita: Adventures in Antarctica, Travels in a Thin Land, and Cherry: A Biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, all published by the Modern Library, are among her works. Wheeler resides in London with her family when she is not traveling.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780375503283 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375503285 |
| Title | Cherry |
| Author | Sara Wheeler |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House (NY) |
| Year published | 2002-04-16 |
| Number of pages | 353 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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