Gift Guides 2024 | Timeless Classics from the Travel Department
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Unexplored Syria.
BURTON, Richard Francis; TYRWHITT DRAKE, Charles F.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00Burton was Consul at Damascus from 1865-1871. During that period Tyrwhitt-Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fun...
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The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
CARTER, Howard; MACE, A.C.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00The most famous archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. First edition of the three-volume Tut-Ankh-Amen, Howard Carter's account of the ...
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Travels and discoveries in the Levant.
NEWTON, Charles Thomas.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00Newton was vice-consul at Mitylene and resided in the Levant from 1852-1859. The expeditions to Asia Minor took place between 1856-1859 and were m...
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The Autobiography: Traveller's Prelude; Beyond Euphrates; The Coast of Incense; Dust in the Lion's Paw.
STARK, Freya.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00Complete set of Stark's autobiography. Freya Stark is one of the most well known female travellers associated with the Middle East. She was one of ...
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A Time of Gifts.
LEIGH FERMOR, Patrick.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00Rather than go to university in 1933, at the age of "18 and three-quarters", he set out in December that year to walk from the Hook of Holland to ...
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Scrambles amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.
WHYMPER, Edward.Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00This landmark of mountaineering literature is considered by many to be the most famous mountain travel book of the period, by the most famous moun...
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The Oberland and its glaciers:
GEORGE, H[ereford]B[rooke]; EDWARDS, Ernst (photographer).Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £1,250.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00A fine example of this extremely beautiful and important work on the Swiss Alps and its Glaciers. It is one of the earliest of its kind to be illu...
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Two visits to the tea countries of China and the British tea plantations in the Himalaya:
FORTUNE, Robert.Original price £1,150.00 - Original price £1,150.00Original price £0.00£1,150.00£1,150.00 - £1,150.00Current price £1,150.00Robert Fortune's carefully edited version of his two principle works: Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China, and Journey to t...
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Nanda Devi.
SHIPTON, E[ric].Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00With dust-wrapper. 'Shipton was a natural choice for the Mount Everest expedition of 1933 on which he reached 27,900 feet, but the experience of th...
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The South Pole.
AMUNDSEN, Roald.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00a cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full...
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