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$55.00
xxcja229628

A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain


DANIELL, WILLIAM; SHEPHERD, C J (ed.)

Imp octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2008

KEYWORDS: Willian Daniell voyage travel writing exploration adventure Folio Society

$45.00
xxhwa229637

The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut


STARK, FREYA

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG) ; Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2014

KEYWORDS: Freya Stark journey adventure travel writing travelling Arabia Middel East

$100.00
3w5/1009

Karakuram Hunza: The Land of Just Enough


HAMID, Major General S SHAHID

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY AUTHOR TO PETER YOUNG, FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, illus eps, XIV + 175pp, illus/maps/tables, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink to fep) in d/w, VG (1.5cm closed tear to lower edge of rear wrapper, moderate creasing/curling to edges, moderate creasing & prev. bookseller's sm label to front flap, light general chafing & soiling - photos available on request)

PUBLISHER: Ma'Aref 1979

KEYWORDS: first edition signed travel exploration Hunza

$32.50
xxcla229660

South Latitude


OMMANNEY, F D

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) price clipped; Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Longman Library 1940

KEYWORDS: history exploration F D Ommanney exploration science adventure Antarctica illustrated travel

$40.00
xxpng229761

Travels with My Aunt


GREENE, GRAHAM

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2004

KEYWORDS: Graham Green travel writing travelling

$16.50
xxppg229777

Polar Peril


SURREY, LIONEL; FORREST, AS (illus.)

FIRST EDITION. Octavo hardcover (VG-) lacking d/w; Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson and Sons [1938]

KEYWORDS: Lionel Surrey adventure polar arctic journey travel

$27.50
xxppg229779

A Belgian Mission to the Boers


STANDAERT, EUGENE

FIRST EDITION. Octavo hardcover (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1917

KEYWORDS: Boer Boers history travel South Africa

$25.00
xxpml229846

Lenin on the Train


MERRIDALE, CATHERINE

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Allen Lane 2016

KEYWORDS: Catherine Merridale Lenin ww1 First World War 1 One I life lives journey travel

$45.00
xxpna229877

A Book of Travellers' Tales


NEWBY, ERIC (ed.)

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2007

KEYWORDS: travel writing travelling exploration adventure journey

$40.00
xxplb229902

Rural Rides


COBBETT, WILLIAM

Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in slipcase (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2010

KEYWORDS: England English landscape travel writing history counties

$20.00
xxple229910

Exploring the Islands of Scotland


HOLLAND, JULIAN

Quarto softcover (VG); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Frances Lincoln 2011

KEYWORDS: exploration Scotland Scottish Islands Isles travel writing travelling

$750.00
3c4/47

The Women of Egypt


COOPER, ELIZABETH

UK FIRST EDITION. Octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt border to front board, teg, frontispiece (with tissueguard), 380pp+4, illus/plates (counted), VG (moderate tanning & soiling to spine, minor creasing to spine extrems, minor scuffing & sl chipping to board edges, moderate soiling & scuffing to boards, some staining to front board, moderate foxing/tanning & soiling to page edges, minor insect damage & soiling to eps, minor cracking to front gutter, moderate tanning & sl foxing to prelims, minor foxing/tanning sporadic throughout).

PUBLISHER: Hurst & Blackett 1914

KEYWORDS: first edition Elizabeth Cooper travel memoir history Egypt culture

$75.00
3c4/48

An Island to Oneself : The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island


NEALE, TOM

FIRST EDITION. Octavo, green cloth boards, frontispiece, 255pp, VG+, in d/w G+ (moderate foxing & soiling throughout, multiple minor tears to extrems, 2cm open tear to front inner, 3cm closed tear to front outer, 10cm open tear loss to lower half of rear). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Collins 1966

KEYWORDS: first edition Tom Neale travel memoir survival autobiography New Zealand

$500.00
3e1/28

The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan ans the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature


WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL

2 volume set. Super octavo, illus cl boards, spine & front board lettered in orange & blue, 329, 330-665 pp., VG+, in slipcase, VG (light soiling & scuffing, some bruising). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2017

KEYWORDS: Alfred Russel Wallace Malay travel writing exploration Folio Society

$62.50
3e1/34

Conrad's Congo: Joseph Conrad's Expedition to the Congo Free State, 1890


CONRAD, JOSEPH; STAPE, J H (ed.)

Octavo, green cl boards, spine & front board lettered & decorated in black, 217 pp., VG+ (light bruising), in slipcase, VG (light soiling & scuffing, light bruising). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2013

KEYWORDS: Joseph Conrad exploration travel writing travelling Congo Africa Folio Society

$60.00
3e2/46

An Embassy to China


LORD MACARTNEY; CRANMER-BYNG, J L (ed.)

Super octavo, illus card boards, black cl spine lettered in gilt, 314 pp., VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems), in slipcase, VG (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems, some soiling). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2004

KEYWORDS: Lord Macartney China journal diary travel writing travelling exploration

$300.00
3d2/59

The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory


BISHOP. J F

Imp octavo, blue cl boards, spine lettered in silver gilt, illus to boards in black & gilt, 420 pp., VG (light bruising to edges & extrems, dampstaining to boards & upper pg edges), in slipcase, VG (moderate soiling & scuffing to covers, light bruising to edges & extrems). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2018

KEYWORDS: J F Bishop Isabella L Bird China Chinese history geography travel writing travelling Folio Society

$95.00
3d2/62

In Patagonia


CHATWIN, BRUCE

Octavo, silver card boards, yellow cl spine lettered in grey, 235 pp., VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, sl soiling), in slipcase, VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The Folio Society 2016

KEYWORDS: Bruce Chatwin travel writing travelling Patagonia

$65.00
3d2/65

Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and Icones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten


VAN DEN BOOGAART, ERNST

Super octavo, orange cl boards, spine lettered in gilt, 123 pp., VG+ (sl bruising), in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press 2003

KEYWORDS: 16th 17th century travel travelling journey exploration Asia

$65.00
3f4/42

The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics


HOLT, JOHN CLIFFORD

First softcover edition. Super octavo, illus light card covers, 772 pp.,VG+ (light bruising to edges & extrems, light soiling). Photos available on request.

PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2011

KEYWORDS: Sri Lanka travel history companion historu culture

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