Books - "travel"
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To Lhasa in Disguise: A Secret Expedition Through Mysterious Tibet
LACKS D/W, super octavo, green buckram boards, red lettering to spine, red logo to front board, top page edges stained orange, illus eps, frontispiece, ix + 462pp, VG (light bruising to extrems & moderate chafing & cuffing to spine & boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, light foxing to prelims, signature in pencil to prelims)
PUBLISHER: Grosset & Dunlap 1924
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature exploration William Montgomery McGovern Tibet history
These Horned Islands
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
Tropic Temper
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
Tropic Temper: A Memoir of Malaya
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
The Red Lama
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
Captain Cook's Epic Voyage
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
Nepalese Customs and Manners
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
Me. And me now: A 1970's Kiwi Hippie Trail Adventure
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
One Hundred Days In Samoa
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
Men, Manners & Morals in South America
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
That Untravelled World
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
In Relief of Gordon; Lord Wolseley's Campaign Journal of The Khartoum Relief Expedition; 1884-1885
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
Return to Japan
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
A Coast to Coast of the South Island, by Paddle, Pedal and Foot
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
The Heart of Black Papua
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
A Vagabond in Fiji
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
Among the Celestials (Modern Facsimile Reprint)
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
Egypt
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
Travels in China and Japan
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
Russia of To-Day
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