Books - "travel"
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The World From Islam: A Journey of Discovery Through the Muslim Heartland
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: HarperCollins 2004
KEYWORDS: travel exploration adventure religion war Islam autobiography George Negus
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia
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: Sort of Books 2001
KEYWORDS: autobiography memoir Chris Stewart travel exploration writing
Interview with India
Octavo, green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 192pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w VG (light rubbing, light soiling, moderate bruising to spine extrems & cover corners, several small tears with loss to cover edges)
PUBLISHER: Travel Book Club 1951
KEYWORDS: India travel Mahatma Gandhi history
The Forlorn Hope: a sea saga of the sixties
inscribed & signed by author, first edition, octavo, blue & brown stapled wrapper, 31pp, VG (moderate tanning to wrapper & pages)
PUBLISHER: Hawthorn Press 1945
KEYWORDS: signed travel forlorn hope ship nautical history
The Southlands of Siva: Some Reminiscences of Life in Southern India
First edition, lacks f.e.p., green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, ruling to front board, 258pp, VG (library booklet to r.e.p., light rubbing to boards, light bruising to spine extrems & board corners, light tanning to page edges, light sporadic foxing to pages)
PUBLISHER: John Lane the Bodley Head 1923
KEYWORDS: South India travel history
Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Sub-Antarctic: A Great Granddaughter's Pilgrimage
Large 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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Exisle Publishing 1997
KEYWORDS: travel exploration history adventure maritime nautical New Zealand Robert Holding biography autobiography Madelene Ferguson Allen
Journeying With Aviators in New Zealand
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 will reduce your overall postage cost
PUBLISHER: Random House 1998
KEYWORDS: aviation travel exploration New Zealand history
Voyage of the Nyanza RNYC, being the Record of a Three Years' Cruise in a Schooner Yacht in the Atlantic and Pacific, and Her Subsequent Shipwreck
Imperial octavo, green buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, nautical flag motif to spine & front board, brown coated eps, ,frontispiece with tissue guard, xviii + 466pp, illus + folding map at rear, VG (light bruising & fraying to spine extrems & board corners, light staining to boards, some tanning to page edges, owner's ex libris label to front pastedown, owner's name & date in ink to frontispiece verso, sporadic light foxing)
PUBLISHER: William Blackwood & Sons 1892
KEYWORDS: exploration sailing cruise travel Nyanza
The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman
Super octavo, navy blue boards with gilt lettering to spine, xii + frontispiece folding map + 375pp, illus, VG+ (light foxing to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (price clipped, light wear to extrems, in clear protective wrapper)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1968
KEYWORDS: Abel Janszoon Tasman exploration travel Pacific voyages
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