encouraged by his friend George Bernard Shaw, Cherry-Garrard wrote The Worst Journey in the World. Over 80 years later this book is still in print and is often cited as a classic of travel literature, having been acclaimed as the greatest true adventure story ever written. It was published as Penguin Books' 100th publication. As Scott was still considered a hero in postwar Britain at the time of the book's publication, there was some criticism of the book upon release which were aimed at Cherry's descriptions of the negative qualities and traits of Scott. In an article in The Times, one critic said of the book that 'he has evidently, quite in the postwar manner resolved to say what he thinks and emphasize the "heroism" of the story as little as possible.' More recently however, Roland Huntford has dismissed the Worst Journey as "an immature but persuasive, highly charged apologia". Cherry-Garrard contributed an essay in remembrance of T. E. Lawrence in the first edition of a volume edited by Lawrence's brother, A. W. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, by His Friends. Subsequent abridged editions omit his article. Cherry-Garrard hypothesises in this essay that Lawrence undertook extraordinary acts out of a sense of inferiority and cowardice and a need to prove himself. He suggests, too, that Lawrence's writings – as well as Cherry's own – were therapeutic and helped in dealing with the nervous breakdown of the events they recount. Legacy The igloo on Cape Crozier was discovered by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1957–1958. Only of the stone walls remained standing. Relics were removed and placed in museums in New Zealand. The three penguin eggs brought back from Cape Crozier are now in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. References Footnotes Bibliography External links 1886 births 1959 deaths Royal Navy personnel of World War I Royal Navy officers Military personnel from Bedford Burials in Hertfordshire 20th-century English writers Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford English polar explorers Explorers of Antarctica People educated at Winchester College People from Bedford People from Kintbury People from Wheathampstead Terra Nova expedition English memoirists Royal Naval Reserve personnel