Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quotes
At once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has ever been devised.
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| Birth: | 2nd January, 1886 |
| Death: | 18th May, 1959 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Explorer |
Apsley Cherry-Garrard was an English explorer of Antarctica. He was a survivor of the Terra Nova Expedition and is acclaimed for his historical account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World. Born in Lansdowne Road, Bedford, as Apsley George Benet Cherry, the son and eldest child of Major General Apsley Cherry of Denford Park in Berkshire and his wife, Evelyn Edith, daughter of Henry Wilson Sharpin of Bedford. He was educated at Winchester College and Christ Church, Oxford where he read Classics and Modern History. In 1922, encouraged by his friend and neighbour G. Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World.
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