KIRKUP, JAMES

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Collins 1962 [third impression]

KEYWORDS: japan history sociology culture japanese travel

KIRKUP, JAMES

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Readers Union Collins 1963

KEYWORDS: malaya malaysia history culture travel sociology

KIRKUP, JAMES

Super octavo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (G+) ; 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Collins 1963

KEYWORDS: malaya james kirkup southeast asia malaysia malaysian peninsula singapore travel colonialism

CABLE, MILDRED & FRENCH, FRANCESCA (with)

Second edition, second impression; Sm. octavo, illus. light card covers with french flaps, blue lettering to white spine, 41pp, scruffy VG- (light fading, moderate rubbing to covers, light creasing to corners, extensive tape repairs to spine - previously cracked across entire length - so that covers are present & remain in one piece, however, they are still entirely detached from rest of the book, front flap price-clipped, light foxing/discolouration throughout, moreso to page edges, names & stamps of multiple prev. owners to half-title page, prev. owner's stamp to p.41)

PUBLISHER: The Paternoster Press 1945

KEYWORDS: mildred cable francesca french red lama christianity religion religious missionaries missionary tibetan travel writing british english

BLAINEY, GEOFFREY

Revised edition; Super octavo softcover (VG+), prev. owner's name cut-out of top right corner of half-title page; 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: Viking 2020

KEYWORDS: geoffrey blainey captain james cook endeavour expeditions exploration travel adventure journeys australian history britain british empire english england imperialism colonialism jean de surville french france st jean-baptiste

LALL, KESAR

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Ratna Pustak Bhandar 1979

KEYWORDS: nepal nepalese customs manners travel kesar lall culture guide guidebook

SAMSON, ALAN

Super octavo softcover (Near 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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Writers Ink 2021

KEYWORDS: alan samson new zealand travel memoir hippy hippie hippies counterculture trail asia

SOUTHALL, ANDY

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 costs.

PUBLISHER: Amapur Press Ltd. 2018

KEYWORDS: andy southall samoan pacific islands travel writing memoirs autobiographies autobiography new zealand

BLAND, J. O. P.

FIRST EDITION; Super octavo hardcover (VG-, boards shaky, moderately heavy foxing to page edges, one photo plate detached but present); 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: William Heinemann 1920

KEYWORDS: first editions jop john otway percy bland south american travel writing anthropology history

SHIPTON, ERIC & BIRO (illus)

Tidy ex-library; Super octavo hardcover (VG, light soiling and tape residue to boards/eps, but text clean - good reading copy) 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1969

KEYWORDS: ex-library eric shipton biro autobiography autobiographies memoirs travel mountain mountaineering exploration expeditions writing mount mt everest

Lord WOLSELEY & PRESTON, ADRIAN (ed)

FIRST EDITION; Super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG, price-clipped); 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: Hutchinson & Co (Publishers) Ltd 1967

KEYWORDS: first editions adrian preston lord wolseley gordon khartoum expedition travel writing journals diaries memoirs military history english england victorian army nineteenth 19th century

VINING, ELIZABETH GRAY

FIRST UK EDITION; Super octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Michael Joseph Ltd 1961

KEYWORDS: first uk edition elizabeth gray vining memoirs travel writing japanese crown prince akihito imperial family

DEAVOLL, GINNEY

SIGNED, oblong imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Aries Publishing 2013

KEYWORDS: New Zealand signed Ginney Deavoll travel writing literature adventure south island exploration

TAYLOR, MERLIN MOORE

FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG-) rear board v shaky; 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: Robert M McBride & Company 1926

KEYWORDS: first editions history culture anthropology travel writing literature Pacific Papua New Guinea png

FOSTER, HARRY L

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (tatty); 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: John Lane, The Bodley Head 1927

KEYWORDS: pacific islands pasifika Fiji Fijian culture customs travel writing literature exploration adventure

YOUNGHUSBAND, Captain FRANCIS

FACSIMILE REPRINT, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: SN Books World ( Originally John Murray 1898)

KEYWORDS: exploration travel literature writings Captain Sir Francis Edward Younghusband Manchuria Gobi desert Himalayas India history

LOTI, PIERRE & BAINES, W P (Trans) & LAMPLOUGH, A (Illus)

Ex-library- reading copy only, octavo hardcover (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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: T Werner Laurie N/D (c.1920s?)

KEYWORDS: travel literature writings Pierre Loti exploration adventure Egypt

KAZANTZAKIS, NIKOS & KAZANTZAKIS, HELEN (Epilogue) & PAPPAGEOTES, GEORGE C (Trans)

FIRST EDITION, octavo, yellow cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 382pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light to moderate soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, light foxing sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, heavy creasing & chipping/closed tearing to edges, moderate chafing & soiling)

PUBLISHER: Bruno Cassirer 1964

KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature China Japan Asia oriental history culture Nikos Kazantzakis far east

FRASER, JOHN FOSTER

Octavo, orange buckram boards, black lettering & illus to spine & front board, frontispiece with tissue guard, viii + 296pp, illus/photos, VG (light scuffing to extrems, light fading to spine, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps)

PUBLISHER: Cassell 1915

KEYWORDS: Russia Russian culture customs travel literature writing

GALTON, FRANCIS

Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & black rule to spine, black lettering & rule to front board, patterned eps, frontispiece, xviii + 320pp + 4pp catalogue to rear, VG- (light to moderate scuffing to extrems, light soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, moderate cracking to front gutter- front board shaky, light foxing to prelims, moderate cracking to some gutters)

PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock and Co 1889

KEYWORDS: travel literature writing South Africa exploration adventure customs culture