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$200.00
3j4/1

Missions in Western Polynesia: Being Historical Sketches of These Missions, from Their Commencement in 1839 to the Present Time


MURRAY, A W

ALL MAPS & PLATES PRESENT, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 489pp + 16pp to rear, illus/plates- all present, VG- (heavy chafing/scuffing to spine & boards, moderate tanning to spine, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, light tanning & foxing to eps, moderate foxing & water staining to frontispiece & other plates/pages, occasional moderate soiling to pages, 2cm closed tear to fore-edge of pg10- tidy archival repair)

PUBLISHER: John Snow 1863

KEYWORDS: Polynesia missions religion religious missionaries history historical travel literature writing A W Murray

$245.00
3j4/2

A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands; with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origins, Languages, Traditions and Usages of the Inhabitants (Sixth Thousand)


WILLIAMS, JOHN & BAXTER, G (Wood Engravings)

SIXTH THOUSAND, octavo, half leatherbound brown heavy boards, gilt lettering & tooling/decoration to spine with rsaised bands also, aeg, frontispiece, illus title page, xviii + 590pp, illus, VG (moderate scuffing & surface loss to leatherwork, minor fading & rubbing to boards, moderate soiling to gilt page edges & eps, occasional light cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink to prelims, moderate foxing throughout)

PUBLISHER: J Snow 1837

KEYWORDS: travel writing literature historical history natural history missions missionaries south sea islands pacific anthropology

$45.00
3j4/5

The Paradise of the Southern Hemisphere: German and Austrian Visitors to New Zealand 1876-1889


HARRISON, OLIVER

Octavo, red patterned light card wrappers, black lettering to spine & front cover, vi + 160pp, illus, VG+ (sl creasing & rubbing to spine & cover edges, sl soiling to covers, light tanning & foxing to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Research Centre for Germanic Connections with New Zealand and the Pacific 2008

KEYWORDS: New Zealand history travel visitors German Austrian 19th nineteenth century

$19.50
xxbkf223905

A Single Wave: Stories of Storns and Survival


CHILES, WEBB

Super Octavo hardcover, (Near 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Sheridan House Inc 1999

KEYWORDS: adventure exploration travel survival voyages maritime nautical sailing

$25.00
xxbkg223918

In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette


SIDES, HAMPTON

LARGE PRINT EDITION 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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Random House Large Print 2014

KEYWORDS: LARGE PRINT voyage exploratione expedition travel north pole adventure

$35.00
xxbkg223919

'Birdie' Bowers of the Antarctic


SEAVER, GEORGE & CHERRY-GARRARD, APSLEY (introduction)

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: Butler & Tanner Ltd 1951

KEYWORDS: biography Edgar Christian exploration travel polar exploration south pole antarctica

$28.50
xxdba223922

An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor


SMITH, MICHAEL

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 may reduce your overall postage costs.

PUBLISHER: Headline Book Publishing 2002

KEYWORDS: biography Tom Crean Antarctic voyage exploration travel adventure expedition

$19.50
xxdba223924

The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst


TOMALIN, NICHOLAS & HALL, RON

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: Hodder & Stoughton 1970

KEYWORDS: voyages travel Donald Crowhurst psychology

$25.00
xxdbf223939

Oceans Alone: Chris Sayer's solo adventures on the high sea


HAYTER, REBECCA

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: HarperCollinsPublishers 2004

KEYWORDS: maritimie nautical biography Chris Sayer adventures travel

$32.50
xxdgg223981

45 South: A Journey Across Southern New Zealand


GASTEIGER, ARNO (photography) & FEARNLEY, LAURENCE (essays)

Oblong quarto 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: Penguin Books 2013

KEYWORDS: photography New Zealand south southern art travel Arno Gasteiger Laurence Fearnley

$22.50
xxpoa224138

The Russian Shores of the Black Sea and A Journey to Katmandu


OLIPHANT, LAURENCE

Small 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: Konemann 1998

KEYWORDS: laurence oliphant travel writing nineteenth century history

$37.50
xxpoa224142

Letters of a Russian Traveler 1789-1790: An Account of a Young Russian Gentleman's Tour Through Germany, Switzerland, France, and England


KARAMZIN, N M & JONAS, FLORENCE (trans)

EX-LIBRARY 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: Columbia University Press 1957

KEYWORDS: russian travel writing eighteenth century europe n m karamzin

$22.50
xxsdo224158

On the Trail of Unusual Animals in Danger of Extinction: Jean-Francois Lagrot and Isabelle Prouteau's around-the-world adventure


LAGROT, JEAN-FRANCOIS & PROUTEAU, ISABELLE & POWIS, EILEEN (illus)

Quarto 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: La Cherche Midi Editeur 1997

KEYWORDS: Jean-Francois Lagrot Isabelle Prouteau vetinarian conservation extinction travel

$16.50
xxsdo224167

An Eye on the Hebrides: An Illustrated Journey


HEDDERWICK, MAIRI

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: Canongate 2000

KEYWORDS: western isles scotland hebrides mairi hedderwick travel memoir

$12.50
xxpbl224380

Exciting Eighties: A Time of High Expectations


PADDON, ESTHER

SIGNED, INSCRIBED. 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: Vanguard Press 2017

KEYWORDS: travel anecdotes autobiopgraphy old age Esther Paddon

$35.00
xxpah224391

From the Middle Temple to the South Seas


GILCHRIST, ALEXANDER

FIRST 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: John Murray 1927

KEYWORDS: history politics government Alexander Gilchrist travel

$25.00
xxpah224392

Children of Three Oceans


LEWIS, DAVID

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: Collins Clear-Type Press1969

KEYWORDS: history travel voyage sailing David Lewis biography

$40.00
3j4/45

In Sicily: 1896 = 1898 = 1900


SLADEN, DOUGLAS

TWO VOLUME Set, imperial octavo, green heavy cloth boards, illus in gilt frame to front boards, gilt lettering to spines, upper edges gilt, side edges deckled, frontispieces, illus title pages, (xxxii + 439pp & xvi + 565pp), extensively illus, VG (moderate soiling & fading to boards, light to moderate brusing & scuffing to boards & edges, small 0.5 cm tear to top of vol i spine, vol i missing fep, vol i front gutter lightly cracked, vol ii gutter cracked between p200-201, light to moderate tanning & foxing to pages & edges)

PUBLISHER: Sands & Co 1901

KEYWORDS: sicily italy nineteenth twentieth century douglas sladen sicilia history travel writing

$50.00
3j2/42

The Sky Travellers: Journeys in New Guinea 1938-1939


GAMMAGE, BILL

Ex-library, imperial octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xx + 292pp, illus, VG (v slight soiling to pastedowns, light soiling & foxing to page edges) in d/w (in clear plastic cover affixed to jacket, slight creasing to edges)

PUBLISHER: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press 1998

KEYWORDS: western highlands papua new guinea travel journeys 1930s bill gammage hagen-sepik patrol

$48.50
3j1/35

Taranaki to Taupo


SEARS, ARCH G

SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, quarto, spiral bound illus light card wrappers, illus inside wrapper, 190pp + 4, illus, VG+ (slight fading to wrapper, v slight soiling to wrapper, light tanning & foxing to page edges, slight tanning to page edges)

PUBLISHER: Arch G Sears n/d

KEYWORDS: arch g sears family history new zealand travel memoir taranaki taupo papua new guinea

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