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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. 

  • Portico of the Temple of Dendera.

    ROBERTS, David.
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    In the 1830s tourism in the Holy Land was increasing as the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, consolidated his authority and promoted the research int...

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  • Pisgah-Sight of Palestine

    FULLER, Thomas.
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    The first true Biblical atlas. Pisgah refers to Mount Pisgah, the mountain in the Bible from which Moses saw the Promised Land for the first time.T...

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  • A Voyage to the Levant:

    BRUYN [BRUIN], Cornelius de.
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    With large panoramas including Constantinople and Jerusalem. One of the most spectacular Levant books. De Bruyn (1652-1726/7), the Dutch traveller ...

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  • The Inside of a Hippah in New Zealand; A Human Sacrifice in a Morai in Otaheite; Tereoboo, King of Owyhee, bringing presents to Captn. Cook; Inhabitants of Norton Sound and their Habitations.

    WEBBER, John; POUNCY, B.T. (etching) & WOOLLETT, W. (aquatinting).
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    Four proof plates before letters from Cook's third voyage. Four proof plates before letters being early states of images from Cook's last voyage, s...

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  • Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae Navigationum;

    SPILBERGEN, Joris Van.
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    A book of primary importance in the history of dutch navigation. The first Latin edition of the first circumnavigation to have the official support...

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  • A Group of Six Bust Portraits of Beauties - Jidai Kagami [Mirror of the Ages].

    CHIKANOBU, Yoshu.
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    Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu, was one of the most successful woodblock print artists of J...

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  • A Group of Six Bust Portraits of Beauties - Jidai Kagami [Mirror of the Ages].

    CHIKANOBU, Yoshu.
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    Toyohara Chikanobu (1838–1912), better known to his contemporaries as Yōshū Chikanobu, was one of the most successful woodblock print artists of J...

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  • Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds. Nelson, Day, Lashly.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing biologist Edward Nelson, Bernard Day (who was Shackleto...

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  • Travels in Arabia Deserta

    DOUGHTY, Charles.
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    Lawrence had long admired Doughty's Arabia Deserta, and was instrumental in getting the second edition published in 1921 with an introduction by h...

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  • Portrait of a Janissary, standing before an encampment [and] Portrait of a Sipahi before and encampment.

    Follower of Van Mour.
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    Jean Baptiste Van Mour is recorded as having settled in Constantinople in 1699. It is thought that he was invited at the request of the French Amb...

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