Apsley
Cherry-Garrard
“Cherry” joined the Terra Nova Expedition at the age of 24, as Assistant Zoologist and “Adaptable Helper.” He participated in all the major sledging journeys, including the ghastly midwinter trek to Cape Crozier to collect penguin eggs which gave The Worst Journey in the World its title. After returning to Britain he served in the First World War. For the rest of his life, Cherry was a dedicated conservationist and historian of the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration.
Sarah Airriess
Sarah trained as an animator in Canada and has worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and London. At 26, she heard a radio dramatisation of The Worst Journey in the World, which led her to throw away her career and move to England to make the graphic novel. She went to Antarctica in 2019 with the NSF’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and is currently an Institute Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge.
Cherry-Garrard was tasked with writing the official Expedition Narrative, but in compiling it he realised it ought to be a more personal memoir, bringing forward the personalities involved in the Terra Nova Expedition more than the equipment and statistics. The Worst Journey in the World was published in 1922, and was the only book Cherry ever wrote, though he did republish it with a postscript in 1951 (pictured, left).
Contrary to popular belief, it was out of print for a while in the late 20th Century, but has been re-issued in several new editions since then.
When Cherry’s widow died, she left the rights to the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
Airriess has applied her experience in the animation industry to translate The Worst Journey in the World into a visual medium, making the depth of the original more accessible to a broad audience. Extensive endnotes expand on the material covered in the 148 pages of full-colour comic.
Making Our Easting Down is the first in a four-volume graphic serialisation of The Worst Journey in the World, made in cooperation with the Scott Polar Research Institute.
215x151mm
220pp.; 149 of which are comic and 54 annotations
Paperback (UK, int’l) is available from Indie Novella and hardcover/ebook (US, Canada) from Iron Circus.
