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How to Build a Time Machine


DAVIES, PAUL

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

$45.00
ak3/7b/36

Unclimbed New Zealand: Alpine Travel in the Canterbury and Westland Ranges, Southern Alps


PASCOE, JOHN

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

$60.00
2b29aa/42

Polynesian Missions in Melanesia: From Samoa, Cook Islands and Tonga to Papua New Guinea and New Caledonia


CROCOMBE, MARJORIE & RON (eds)

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

$14.00
xxknb209792

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit


CANETTI, ELIAS & UNDERWOOD, J A (Trans)

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

$15.00
xxknd209801

Touching Tibet


ASH, NIEMA & HISCOCKS, DAN (Ed)

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

$22.50
xxkpd209845

Around the Roof of the World


SHOUMATOFF, NICHOLAS and NINA (Eds)

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

$17.50
xxkpd209851

Greek Pilgrimage


CARROLL, JOHN

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

$12.50
xxkwi209948

From the Holy Mountain: A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium


DALRYMPLE, WILLIAM

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

$12.50
xxkxm209985

Bicycle Diaries


BYRNE, DAVID

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

$65.00
ak3/15a/17

Slowly Down the Ganges


NEWBY, ERIC

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

$100.00
ak3/21a/12

Alarms and Excursions in Arabia


THOMAS, BERTRAM & WILSON, Sir ARNOLD T (Preface)

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

$1700.00
ak3/21b/16

The Holy Cities of Arabia (2 Vol Set)


RUTTER, ELDON

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

$15.00
xxpaf210313

Eye of the Whale: Epic Passage from Naja to Siberia


RUSSELL, DICK; GIVEN, EBEN (maps)

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

$35.00
xxpaf210314

Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten


BROWN, KATE

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

$9.50
xxpbh210386

Drake's World Encompassed


DRAKE, FRANCIS; ROUSE, W H D (ed)

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

$37.50
xxpbl210433

The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World through Evolving Eyes


WILLS, CHRISTOPHER

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

$100.00
ak4/8a/15

Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century


WINDER, R BAYLY

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

$45.00
ak4/8a/16

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures


PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. J H & SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTENEY (Fore)

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

$45.00
ak4/8a/17

Samuel Marsden: A Pioneer of Civilization in the South Seas


JOHNSTONE, S M

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

$17.50
xxpgj210663

Egypt: A Journey Through the Land of the Pharaohs


BREASTED, JAMES HENRY & UNDERWOOD and UNDERWOOD (Stereographs)

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

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