page_title: Apsley Cherry-Garrard
section_title: Writings
hierarchical_section_title: Apsley Cherry-Garrard / Writings
caption_attribution_description: English: Emperor Penguin eggs, collected in July 1911 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, Edward Wilson and Henry Bowers at Cap Crozier on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913)
context_page_description: Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was an English explorer of Antarctica. He was a member of the Terra Nova expedition and is acclaimed for his 1922 account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World.
context_section_description: In 1922, encouraged by his friend George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World. Over 80 years later this book is still in print and is often cited as a classic of travel literature, having been acclaimed as the greatest true adventure story ever written. It was published as Penguin Books' 100th publication. More recently however, Roland Huntford has dismissed the Worst Journey as "an immature but persuasive, highly charged apologia".
  Cherry-Garrard contributed an essay in remembrance of T. E. Lawrence in the first edition of a volume edited by Lawrence's brother, A. W. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, by His Friends. Subsequent abridged editions omit his article. Cherry-Garrard hypothesises in this essay that Lawrence undertook extraordinary acts out of a sense of inferiority and cowardice and a need to prove himself. He suggests, too, that Lawrence's writings—as well as Cherry's own—were therapeutic and helped in dealing with the nervous breakdown of the events they recount.
caption: The three emperor penguin eggs collected at Cape Crozier
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