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Cherry, A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard
by Sara Wheeler
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2003
- PAPER
- 353 PAGES
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A nicely written biography. Wheeler (Terra Incognita) captures the thrill of Victorian polar exploration -- and the anguish of a man haunted by the death of his colleagues on the march back from the pole. Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) befriended George Bernard Shaw, became famous, wrote one of the great books of polar exploration -- and finally married at age 53, living to a ripe old age in the comfort of Merry England.
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