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...employees at Balmoral & Sandringham, and sold off everything on these properties which was salable, and with the money thus saved and raised, he bought priceless emeralds for Mrs. Simpson. These emeralds were the property of Queen Alexandra who left them to Princess Victoria, who in turn sold them to Garrard's of Bond Street, where King Edward bought them...
...WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD- Apsley Cherry-Garrard-Dial...
...anticipated him; in 1912 Captain Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole only to find that Norwegian Roald Amundsen had beaten him to it by a few weeks. Scott's party all died of cold and exhaustion on their way back to their base. Author Cherry-Garrard, member of Scott's main expedition,* gives a complete account of the three-year expedition (1910-1913). Says he: "There is already considerable literature about the expedition, but no connected account of it as a whole...
...worst journey" Author Cherry-Garrard tells about was not Scott's fatal march, but a trip taken by himself and two others in search of eggs of the Emperor Penguin. It required five weeks of fearful hardship; when their tent blew away in a gale they thought they would die, almost gave up hope. But they got three eggs, brought them back safe and sound. Blurbs Playwright George Bernard Shaw: ". . . a very horrible experience. Compared with it Amundsen's victorious rush to the South Pole seems as cheerful as a trip to Margate...
...Author. Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he went with Scott, did not write this book till 1922 because the War interfered. (This is the first U. S. edition.) During the War he was "in Flanders looking after a fleet of armored cars. A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honor as long as you can put one foot before the other." A believer in scientific exploration, Author Cherry-Garrard deprecates purely spectacular expeditions, thinks Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole was mostly that. Says...