Volume 1 Encouraged by his friend and neighbor George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World.
At the age of 25 he was one of the youngest members of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition and wrote a memoir of the 1910-1913 expedition to Antarctica.
He wrote of the extreme difficulties and suffering of the explorers while on expedition to reach the retrieve eggs of the Emperor penguin for study.
In 2001, National Geographic Adventure magazine named The Worst Journey in the World the "number one adventure book of all time."
