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.
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British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Glaciology.
WRIGHT, C.S. & Priestley R.E.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /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.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /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).Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /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.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /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.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /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].Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00| /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.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /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.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /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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Mycenae;
SCHLIEMANN, Dr. Henry.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /From the renowned collection of Panos Gratsos. 'It is a spectacular book and was a roaring success... No one could overlook or ignore this book and...
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Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836,
DARWIN, Charles; FITZROY, Capt. Robert; KING, Capt. Philip Parker.Original price £65,000.00 - Original price £65,000.00Original price £0.00£65,000.00£65,000.00 - £65,000.00Current price £65,000.00| /With important Australian provenance. Darwin's first published, and his most widely read book: the account of the most important 19th-century voyag...
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A short note on the design and issue of postage stamps
[DOWSON, Sir Ernest Macleod].Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00| /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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A Handbook of Greece.
GREECE, CONFIDENTIAL REPORT.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00| /Volume I: The mainland of old Greece and certain neighbouring islands; volume II, parts i & ii: The Cyclades and northern Sporades with The is...
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The Sikandar Nama, e Bara,
NIZAMI; CLARKE, Captain H. Wilberforce (translator).Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /A fine copy of Clarke's translation of the first part of Nizami's history of Alexander the Great containing Alexander's life and accomplishments. ...
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