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For the Armchair Explorer: Books on Travel and Exploration

Curated by Julian MacKenzie and Lucinda Boyle, our travel and exploration collection encourages you to travel the globe from the comfort of your own home. Their selections offer an unparalleled escape into the world of adventure, making perfect gifts for the travel-hungry soul or the history enthusiast. 

  • The Military Operations at Cabul

    EYRE, Lt. Vincent.
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    Eyre's record of part of the debacle of the First Afghan War of 1839-42. Following the murder of Alexander Burnes in 1841 the British force was be...

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  • Relation d'un pèlerinage à la Mecque en 1910-1911.

    KAZEM ZADEH, Hoseyn.
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    Illustrated account of a pilgrimage to mecca. A personal account of Kedem Zadeh's pilgrimage to Mecca between 1910 and 1911 illustrated with 16 pho...

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  • Istoria della Conquista del Messico,

    SOLIS, Antonio de.
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    A fine copy of the Italian edition of this celebrated history of Mexico, which describes the three years between the appointment of Cortes to comm...

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  • British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Glaciology.

    WRIGHT, C.S. & Priestley R.E.
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    Remarkable photographic record of the Terra Nova Expedition. Charles Wright was part of Robert Falcon Scott's last expedition, the Terra Nova Exped...

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  • Greater Shanghai.

    SOWERBY, Arthur de C. (editor).
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    Rare special issue of China Journal devoted to Shanghai. Beautifully illustrated and with numerous ads from leading Shanghai businesses. Includes ...

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  • An authentick and faithful history of that arch-pyrate Tulagee Angria.

    (TOOLAJI ANGRIA).
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    Rare. ESTC lists only BL, Advocates Library, and Birmingham Central Library in U.K., adding College of William and Mary and University of Minnesot...

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  • Nepal.

    LANDON, Perceval.
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    Landon's work is the leading reference book on Nepal. Includes an account of the work of B. H. Hodgson in Nepal, and also the part played by Mahar...

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  • Six years in Seychelles;

    ESTRIDGE, H. Watley.
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    Inscribed by the author. Rare. Estridge was collector of taxes in the British colonial administration in the early 1880's, serving as Collector of ...

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  • Russia and England from 1876 to 1880

    [NOVIKOFF, Olga].
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    At a time when England and Russia were vying for supremacy in Central Asia, the author of this book attempts to show that Russia's aims were peace...

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  • An Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Chile.

    OVALLE, Alonso de.
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    As quoted by Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. First printed in Rome by Francisco Cavallo in 1649, before being translated into English an...

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  • An Account of the Kingdom of Nepal and of the Territories Annexed to this Dominion by the House of Gorkha.

    BUCHANAN, Francis Hamilton.
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    One of the earliest comprehensive accounts of Nepal. Buchanan accompanied Knox to Nepal and later spent two years on the Nepalese frontier collect...

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  • A short note on the design and issue of postage stamps

    [DOWSON, Sir Ernest Macleod].
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    Special edition for presentation. Rare. This publication was occasioned by the fall of Damascus on the 30th September 1919, and the consequent remo...

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