Both of Cherry's companions on the Winter Journey (as it was called) died on the Southern journey with Scott. The 'worst journey' of the title was not Scott's ill-fated rendezvous with death, but the earlier Ross Island winter trip from Cape Evans to the penguin colony at Cape Crozier. a young but wealthy patrician, near-sighted and frail, he paid his way onto the crew as an assistant zoologist, but performed splendidly in many harrowing situations. "Cherry-Garrard seems an unlikely hero of Antarctic exploration, but he has achieved that status largely through this book. Cherry participated on that trip but was with the last group to be sent Most of all, he had the sensibilities and extraordinary literary genius necessary to cope with the complex and tragic subject of the Polar Journey" (Rosove).
He was a member of the main party for the expedition's entire duration, had access to unpublished sources, and was the only member of the Winter Journey to survive the expedition. While Scott's diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold, "it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together. "With this title we have come to the best written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic" (Taurus).
First edition, first impression, of Cherry-Garrard's account of Scott's 1910-13 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica, during which he served as the assistant zoologist.
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