Whistler, a fellow of the Zoological Society and a serving member of the Indian (Imperial) police, spent much of his leave in the Himalayas north ...

This scarce volume narrates an attempt to cross the Muztagh Pass in 1922. Capt. Featherstone was the only European member of the expedition which...

Setting out in 1838, Joseph and Henry Bullar spent seven months in the Azores. They travelled to the islands of Sao Miguel, Faial, Pico, Sao Jorg...

A fictional tale which the author intended to be 'a second Hajji Baba, which would serve as a true picture of Persia some ten years ago, before co...

From the library of renowned 19th-century woman bibliophile. Sangermano, a missionary, worked in Burma from 1783 to 1806. His book provides a good ...

'Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he ...

An English abridgement of Etienne Felix Berlioux's (1828-1920) La traite orientale on the slave trade from the Sudan, the Nile basin and East Afri...

'A beautifully produced work' (Blackmer). An attractive copy of this richly illustrated and wide ranging work on Greece.New edition. 8vo, engraved...

The title that established Younghusband as a serious Central Asian explorer. Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir an...

Account of Western society by an Indian poet. An entertaining account of Khan's impressions and remarks on the travels he made West from his hometo...

The famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-1767) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, and the return journey. the first scien...

Scarce in original cloth. Narrative of the journey with Henri d'Orleans from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 18...

Scarce. Although a missionary work, the book is full of valuable topographical information as well as containing interesting data on natural histo...

Early account of the Nile. One of the earliest records of travels in Ethiopia, translated from Lobo's Itinerario by Sir Peter Wyche (1628-1699). W...

A superbly bound example in fine condition.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a four...

Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa.Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer, h...