Books - "travel"
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The Set of the Sails: The STory of a Cape Horn Seaman
First edition, octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering in brown decorative panel to spine, upper page edges stained brown, illus eps, frontispiece, 247pp, illus, VG (v slight tanning to page edges, bookseller's label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to fep) in d/w, VG- (tatty, moderate staining & soiling, moderate crease to edges, some tatty tears to spine extrems & corners)
PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton 1949
KEYWORDS: sailing seaman nautical marine travel
Round the Horn Before the Mast
Octavo, orange cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, x + 375pp, map to rear, VG- (heavy fading & staining to boards, moderate browning to page edges & eps, relevant newspaper article glued to front pastedown)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1911
KEYWORDS: sailing seaman nautical marine travel
South With Shackleton
Scarce, first edition, octavo, light blue cloth boards with navy blue lettering to spine, illus eps, ix + 181pp, illus, VG (inscription in ink to half-title page, small stain to rear board lower edge) in d/w, tatty VG- (several tears with loss to edges, moderate creasing to edges, corners & spine extrems,)
PUBLISHER: Smapson Low 1949
KEYWORDS: exploration Antarctic travel voyage Ernest Shackleton expedition
The Hejaz Railway
Large quarto, brown boards wtih gilt lettering to spine & front board, black eps, illus title page, xiii + 193pp, illus, nr fine, in d/w, nr fine
PUBLISHER: Stacey International & Al Turath 2005
KEYWORDS: travel railways trains Hejaz Railway transport history
Twelve Years in Canterbury, New Zealand, with Visits to the Other Provinces, and Reminiscences of the Route Home Through Australia
First edition, very tidy copy in original binding, green cloth boards with gilt decoration to spine, xiv + 226pp + 16pp adverts, VG (light rubbing & light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, previous owner's name in ink to fep)
PUBLISHER: Sampson Low, Son & Marston 1867
KEYWORDS: New Zealand history Canterbury travel Charles Thomson
All the Way Round: Sea Roads to Africa
first edition in scarce d/w, octavo, orange cloth boards with silver lettering to spine, frontispiece, 284pp, illus, VG (light tanning & light foxing to page edges, light soiling to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & boards corners) in d/w VG- (price clipped, moderate dampstaining to spine & front cover, light soiling, light foxing, light creasing, moderate chipping to spine extrems, moderate bruising to cover corners)
PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph 1938
KEYWORDS: Ocean travel history Africa nautical ports
Valley of the Spirits: A Journey Into the Lost Realm of the Aymara
Tidy ex-library, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons 1996
KEYWORDS: ancient history travel exploration adventure Aymara Andes
Parallel Lines: Riding the Central Otago Rail Trail
Signed by author and artist, oblong octavo softcover (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Longacre Press 2007
KEYWORDS: New Zealand rail trail central otago poems poetry literature paintings art travel exploration
The Defeat of John Hawkins: A Biography of his Third Slaving Voyage
Paperback (VG); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Pelican Books 1962
KEYWORDS: biography memoir John Hawkins exploration travel history slavery slave trade merchant shipping maritime nautical
A Traveller's Life
Octavo softcover (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Harper Press 2010
KEYWORDS: travel exploration adventure humour autobiography memoir Eric Newby
Canada: A Portrait in Letters 1800-2000
Super octavo softcover (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Anchor Canada 2004
KEYWORDS: Canada travel exploration correspondance history letters Charlotte Gray
Land Lines
Quarto softcover (nr fine); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Polygon/The Scottish Literary Tour Company 2001
KEYWORDS: travel exploration literature poems poetry pictorial Scotland Highlands Scottish
Expeditions to the Hebrides
Super octavo hardcover (nr fine) in d/w (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Maclean Press 2001
KEYWORDS: travel exploration Scotland hebrides biography memoir George Clayton Atkinson 1831 1833 naturalist
An Arran Anthology
Super octavo softcover (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Mercat Press 1997
KEYWORDS: Scotland Arran travel history anthology collection literature
Goodbye, Melbourne Town
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Hamish Hamilton 1968
KEYWORDS: travel exploration autobiography memoir Graham McInnes Australia England
Treasure Islands: Sailing the South Seas in the Wake of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
Super octavo softcover (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Headline 2005
KEYWORDS: travel exploration autoiography Pamela Stephenson memoir Fanny Robert Louis Stevenson history
Kipling's India: Uncollected Sketches 1884-88
Octavo softcover (VG+); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Papermac 1987
KEYWORDS: sketches art collection anthology travel exploration India Rudyard Kipling biography memoir
The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-West Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wales 1794-1799
Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1967
KEYWORDS: Hakluyt Society autobiography memoir letters correspondance Captain Charles Bishop travel exploration merchant seaman
The Modern History of Mongolia
First edition, super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968
KEYWORDS: history Mongolia travel first edition culture colonial modern politics socialism
Polynesian Voyagers: The Maori as a Deep Sea Navigator, Explorer and Colonizer
Octavo softcover, stapled light card covers (VG); 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: A. R. Shearer 1975
KEYWORDS: exploration travel Polynesia Maori history New Zealand settlement
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