Books - "travel"
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Space Frontier
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: The Scientific Book Club 1969
KEYWORDS: astrophysics space travel Dr Wernher von Braun lunar moon
The Shark God: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in the South Pacific
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2006
KEYWORDS: Melanesia travel religion Charles Montgomery
Transatlantic Liners: In Picture Postcards
Imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history transatlantic liners Cunard liner art postcards travel
White Star Line: In Picture Postcards
Imperial 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Ian Allan Publishing 2003
KEYWORDS: maritime nautical history transatlantic liners white star line liner art postcards travel
Java, Sumatra and the Other Islands of the Dutch East Indies
Scruffy ex-library, octavo hardcover (G) scruffy reading copy only; 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 Fisher Unwin 1911
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing historical Dutch East Indies Java Sumatra islands A Cabaton
The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2015
KEYWORDS: travel literature writing North Sea coastal Tom Blass
Perseus in the Wind
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: Century Publishing 1984
KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Freya Stark
Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accounts
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: Dover Publications N/D (c.2000s)
KEYWORDS: medieval travel Jewish Palestine history
Inventorum Natura: The Wonderful Voyage of Pliny
Quarto stiff card wrappers (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: Paper Tiger / Dragon's World 1979
KEYWORDS: fantasy literature travel exploration Pliny the Elder mythical creatures Una Woodruff
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa; Including Accounts of Timbuktu, Sokoto, and the Basins of the Niger and Benuwe
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering with gilt & black rule to spine, black decoration to boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvii + 548pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, sl soiling to gilt/page edges, minor tanning to eps, minor foxing & soiling to prelims, heavy cracking to gutters btween pgs 289-321)
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co N/D
KEYWORDS: travel exploration literature writing Africa Henry Barth history historical
Beyond the Coral Sea: Travels in the Old Empire of the South-West Pacific
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins 2003
KEYWORDS: exploration travel south-west pacific writing literature anthropology New Guinea
Solomon Time: An Unlikely Quest in the South Pacific
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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Scribner 2003
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Solomon Islands south pacific Will Randall
Polynesia's Sacred Isle: The Ring of Fire, Volume III
THIS VOL ONLY, 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Dodd, Mead & Company 1976
KEYWORDS: Polynesia ring of fire geology Raiatea Pacific science Apetahia travel history
New Zealand Gardens to Visit
Imperial octavo stiff card wrappers (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: Godwit / Penguin Random House 2022
KEYWORDS: New Zealand gardens tourism tourist locations travel
The Malay Archipelago: The Land of the Orang-utan, and the Bird of Paradise
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: Oxford University Press 2001
KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Malay Archipelago anthropology nature Alfred Russel Wallace
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa; Including Accounts of Tripoli, the Sahara, the Remarkable Kingdom of Bornu, and the Countries Around Lake Chad
Octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, black decorative rule to spine & boards, aeg, patterned eps, frontispiece with tissue guard, xxxii + (2) + 608pp, illus, VG (sl bruising & rubbing to extrems, light fading & soiling to spine, sl chafing to boards, light soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, moderate crack to gutter of prelims- title page partially detached [nothing missing])
PUBLISHER: Ward, Lock & Co N/D
KEYWORDS: historical travel writing literature Central Africa Henry Barth history
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa
FIRST EDITION, 2x FOLDING MAPS- 1x IN REAR POCKET PRESENT, super octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, blind stamp decoration to spine & boards, deckled page edges, folding frontispiece, x + 687pp + 8pp to rear, illus, folding maps, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to extrems, minor tanning to spine, minor wrinkling to buckram/cloth on rear board, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to front pastedown, moderate soiling to pages throughout, moderate cracking to gutter of title page, occasional light foxing to pages, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: John Murray 1857
KEYWORDS: first editions history historical travel writing literature David Livingstone South Africa
A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character & Thought of the People of Persia
RE-BOUND, super octavo, quarter leather bound blue boards, brown lettering to beige leatherette title plate to spine with raised bands also, teg, deckled page edges, frontispiece, xxi + 650pp, folding map to rear, VG+ (single sm library ink stamp to base of copyright page- no other stamps/markings detected, minor fading to spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1926
KEYWORDS: historical travel literature writing Persia Edward Granville Browne history
Mongol Journeys
Octavo, beige heavy boards, black lettering to spine, frontispiece, xxxii + 324pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, sm scuff to top edge of title page)
PUBLISHER: AMS Press 1975
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Mongolia Mongol Owen Lattimore
Star Trek to Hawa-i'i: Mesopotamia to Polynesia
SIGNED & INSCRIBED, octavo, illus light card wrappers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 208pp, illus, VG (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges, heavy crack to gutter of pgs64/65- otherwise a very tidy copy still)
PUBLISHER: The Diamond Press 1991
KEYWORDS: signed Clyde Hostetter travel writing literature history Polynesia origins