Books - "travel"
Showing 4301 to 4320 of 4366 results.
A Voyage Round the Coast of Great Britain
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
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut
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
Karakuram Hunza: The Land of Just Enough
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
South Latitude
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
Travels with My Aunt
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
Polar Peril
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
A Belgian Mission to the Boers
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
Lenin on the Train
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
A Book of Travellers' Tales
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
Rural Rides
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
Exploring the Islands of Scotland
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
The Women of Egypt
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
An Island to Oneself : The Story of Six Years on a Desert Island
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
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan ans the Bird of Paradise: A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature
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
Conrad's Congo: Joseph Conrad's Expedition to the Congo Free State, 1890
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
An Embassy to China
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
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
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
In Patagonia
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
Civil and Corrupt Asia: Image and Text in the Itinerario and Icones of Jan Huygen van Linschoten
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
The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics
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