Books - "travel"
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How to Build a Time Machine
Square octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+) pencil annotations; 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: Allen Lane / Penguin 2001
KEYWORDS: quantum physics metaphysics time travel machines cosmology popular science
Unclimbed New Zealand: Alpine Travel in the Canterbury and Westland Ranges, Southern Alps
FIRST EDITION, FOLDING MAPS, super octavo, red/brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, top page edges stained red, frontispiece, 238pp, folding map to rear, VG (moderate rubbing & scuffing to spine & board edges, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, minor staining to base of front pastedown, hand-typed presentation plate to front pastedown, light foxing to prelims & terminals, minro creasing to folding map)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1939
KEYWORDS: first editions New Zealand mountain climbing mountaineering Alpine Canterbury Westland Southern alps travel writing guides literature
Polynesian Missions in Melanesia: From Samoa, Cook Islands and Tonga to Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia
8vo, pp. vi + 144; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate bruising to edges & extrems with light chipping; light to moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep; prev bookseller's sticker to front cover verso).
PUBLISHER: University of the South Pacific 1982
KEYWORDS: Polynesia Polynesian history travel migration social
The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit
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: Marion Boyars 1982
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Marrakesh Morocco English translations Elias Canette
Touching Tibet
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: TravellersEye 1999
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature spirituality Tibet Niema Ash
Around the Roof of the World
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: University of Michigan Press 1996
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature central Asia Nicholas Nina Shoumatoff
Greek Pilgrimage
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: Scribe 2010
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature John Carroll ancient Greece Greek history heritage culture
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium
Super 8vo 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: Flamingo 1998
KEYWORDS: William Dalrymple travel writing writer 20th century travelling
Bicycle Diaries
8vo 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: Penguin Books 2010
KEYWORDS: David Byrne 20th century memoir travel writing travelling
Slowly Down the Ganges
FIRST EDITION, octavo, blue heavy boards, white lettering to spine, illus/maps to prelims, 326pp, illus/photos, VG (light to moderate bruising to extrems, light soiling to boards, light to moderate foxing to page edges & eps, minor foxing & soiling to prelims & terminals) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing/scuffing & closed tearing to edges, light to moderate chafing & soiling, moderate foxing to flaps)
PUBLISHER: Hodder and Stoughton 1966
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature India Ganges river Eric Newby
Alarms and Excursions in Arabia
FIRST EDITION, super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 296pp, illus/photos, VG (moderate bruising & scuffing to spine & board extrems, moderate fading & tanning to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, moderate foxing to pages throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: George Allen & Unwin 1931
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature Arabia exploration adventure
The Holy Cities of Arabia (2 Vol Set)
2 VOL SET, FIRST EDITIONS, ALL MAPS & PLANS PRESENT, octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spines, gilt Arabic script to front boards, teg, bottom page edges deckled, frontispieces with printed tissue guards, vol 1- xv + 303pp, vol 2- vii + 288pp, illus/maps & plans- all counted & present, VG (light rubbing to extrems, light chafing & soiling to spines & boards, light tanning & moderate foxing to page edges & prelims/terminals, light tanning & foxing to eps, light to moderate foxing sporadically throughout, occasional light cracking to gutters)
PUBLISHER: G P Putnam's Sons 1928
KEYWORDS: first editions travel writing literature Arabia Arab countries Eldon Rutter culture heritage adventure exploration
Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Naja to Siberia
Ex-library. 8vo 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: Simon & Schuster 2001
KEYWORDS: Dick Russell whale whales travelling travel marine science ecology nature social
Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten
8vo 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: The University of Chicago Press 2015
KEYWORDS: Kate Brown travel travelling world history locales landscape
Drake's World Encompassed
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 costs
PUBLISHER: Blackie & Son N.D.
KEYWORDS: Francis Drake 19th century travel travelling voyage exploration
The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World through Evolving Eyes
Super 8vo 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: Oxford University Press 2010
KEYWORDS: Christopher Wills evolution evolving world history travel travelling tourism Darwin Darwinian
Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century
Octavo, orange buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiv + 312pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's details in ink to front pastedown) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, light creasing & moderate closed tearing to edges & spine- some tidy archival tape repairs, light fading to spine, moderate soiling)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan 1965
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Saudi Arabia 19th nineteenth century history
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt animal illus to front board, frontispiece, xx + 338pp, illus, VG+ (light rubbing to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps, gift inscription in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine & edges)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1979
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature east Africa J H Patterson culture
Samuel Marsden: A Pioneer of Civilization in the South Seas
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED & SIGNED 'FROM THE AUTHOR', octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xiii + 256pp + xviii to rear, illus, VG (light chafing & rubbing to board edges/extrems, light soiling to boards, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, moderate foxing to prelims & sporadically throughout) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges- sl loss, moderate tanning & light soiling)
PUBLISHER: Angus & Robertson 1932
KEYWORDS: signed first editions travel writing literature Samuel Marsden south seas historians biography biographies exploration
Egypt: A Journey Through the Land of the Pharaohs
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: Camera/Graphic Press 1978
KEYWORDS: travel writing literature Egypt adventure James Henry Breasted