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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quotes

1886–1959 England

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (January 2, 1886 – May 18, 1959) was an English explorer of Antarctica.

England
Explorers
Memoirists
Non-fiction authors

Also known as: Cherry-Garrard

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Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

The Worst Journey in the World (1922)

They are extraordinarily like children, these little people of the Antarctic world, either like children, or like old men, full of their own importance and late for dinner, in their black tail-coats and white shirt-fronts — and rather portly withal.

The Worst Journey in the World (1922)

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a Winter Journey, Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen: and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

The Worst Journey in the World (1922)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Apsley Cherry-Garrard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.