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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. 

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    Annapurna

    HERZOG, Maurice.
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    Inscribed by author. Herzog (1919-2012) was a French mountaineer who led this remarkable ascent of Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the w...

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    Coronation Everest.

    MORRIS, James.
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    Signed by Edmund Hillary. The author James (later Jan) Morris was the 'anonymous' Times special correspondent who had joined the successful Everest...

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    Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste,

    M'LEOD, John.
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    Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...

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  • Select views of the rock and fortress of Gibraltar.

    CARTER, John Money.
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    Hand coloured lithographs mounted on card as issued. Carter's rare views of Gibraltar, here in the deluxe issue with hand coloured lithographs. Car...

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    Three years' wanderings in

    FORTUNE, Robert.
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    Travels between 1843 and 1845 in Kuangtung, Fukien, the Chekiang coast, and Shanghai. Fortune (1812-1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter an...

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    Elements of Chinese grammar,

    MARSHMAN, Joshua.
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    A pioneering work. Scarce. Two issues of this work were made in 1814. This second issue has Chinese characters on title and a 2-page errata, it als...

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    The Arab of Mesopotamia.

    [BELL, Gertrude].
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    A tribal geography. Described in Bell's own words as a 'tribal geography', and published anonymously, Bell was annoyed by the general assumption th...

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    De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Susepta ab Societate Iesu,

    RICCI, Matteo; TRIGAULT, Nicholas.
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    The most important work on China since Marco Polo. The earliest authoritative source of information on China available in Europe at that time. At h...

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    Nanda Devi.

    SHIPTON, E[ric].
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    With 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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  • 106110_2 106110

    The Karakorams and Kashmir

    ECKENSTEIN, Oscar.
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    Scarce personal reminiscences of Conway's 1892 Karakoram expedition.Eckenstein (1859 – 1921), was a member of the expedition led by Sir Martin Con...

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  • 105497_2 105497

    The Diary of W. Lashly.

    LASHLY, William.
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    With the glassine wrapper - a remarkable survival. Lashly served on both Scott expeditions, but this portion of his diary covers his heroic return ...

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    Little America

    BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
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    Author's autograph edition. 'The true first edition of Byrd's official narrative of his initial Antarctic expedition. For many it marks the end of ...

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    The History of America.

    ROBERTSON, William.
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    This was the first sustained attempt to describe the discovery, conquest and settlement of Spanish America since Herrera's Décadas. Robertson inte...

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    Illustrationes Florae novae hollandiae

    BAUER, Ferdinand.
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    Extremely rare botanical drawings of australia with fine provenance. One of six scientists chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany Matthew Flinders...

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  • 99420_2 99420

    Narrative of the voyages and services of the Nemesis,

    HALL, William Hutcheson; BERNARD, W[illiam] D[allas].
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    Important account of the First Opium War. Includes a fine map of Hong Kong. The Nemesis was designed to draw only six feet of water, enabling her ...

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    Manchuria

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    First edition, 8vo, viii, 87pp., original printed wrappers, a fine copy.

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  • 98644

    Joseph Banks Esq.

    REYNOLDS, Sir Joshua (after); DICKINSON, William (engraver).
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    Sir Joseph Banks as a young man. A beautiful example of this classic image of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) as a young man, at the height of his cel...

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    The currencies of China.

    KANN, Eduard.
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    Detailed account of the gold bar market; silver; copper coinage. Much improved from the first edition.Second edition revised, xxxiv, [ii], 562pp.,...

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