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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. 

  • Picturesque Hong Kong.

    [HONG KONG]. HAZELL, Denis H. (photographer).
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    A very attractive series of photographs showing Hong Kong in the colonial era.'Denis Henry Hazell (1897-1970) was a British businessman. Some of h...

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  • The Capital of the Tycoon.

    ALCOCK, Sir John Rutherford.
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    A handsome set of Sir John Rutherford Alcock's (1809-1897) account of his time as the first British diplomatic representative to reside in Japan.A...

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  • Operations in Waziristan 1919-1920.

    [CONFIDENTIAL] - General Staff Army Headquarters, India.
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    The scarce official account of the Waziristan campaign 1919–1920, and preceding 1917 conflict, with copious views and maps of the scarcely travers...

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  • Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebräuche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen,

    GEISSLER, ChristianGottfried Heinrich (artist).
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    First edition of these uncommon lively hand-coloured scenes. The artist Geissler (1770-1844), who accompanied Peter Simon Pallas on his expedition...

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  • The South Pole.

    AMUNDSEN, Roald.
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    a cornerstone of Antarctic exploration; the account of the first expedition to reach the South Pole.A handsomely produced book containing ten full...

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  • Raccolta di quindici costumi li piu interessanti della Svizzera Desgnati.

    PINELLI, Bartolomeo.
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    An unusual album of Swiss costume plates by the 19th-century artist Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835). Pinelli illustrated works by Dante, Virgil and...

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  • [Text in Persian and French]. Sefer Nameh.

    NASIR-i KHUSRAW.
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    Mecca and Bahrain. The scarce original printing of Schefer's translation of the Safarnama, an eleventh century account of a pilgrimage to Mecca fro...

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  • Records of the Persian Gulf pearl fisheries 1857-1962

    [ARABIAN GULF]; Anita Burdett, editor.
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    A very important work on the pearl fisheries of the Arabian Gulf, bringing together in a single research collection all relevant documents from Br...

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  • Records of the Emirates 1966-1971

    [ARABIAN GULF]; Anita Burdett, editor.
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    A Very important collection of documents covering the period in Arabian Gulf history which saw the British withdrawal from the region.6 vols, 8vo,...

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  • Records of the Emirates 1961-1965

    [ARABIAN GULF].
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    A comprehensive collection of documents covering an important period in the history of the Arabian Gulf. Includes much on oil and water disputes, ...

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  • Historic maps of Bahrain 1817-1970.

    [BAHRAIN].
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    A comprehensive collection containing 69 maps and charts of Bahrain originally produced between 1817 and 1970. The volumes are divided into naval ...

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  • A history of Persian navigation.

    HASAN, Hadi.
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    Hasan's History of Persian Navigation is based on Chinese, Persian and Arabic sources, and provides the first scholarly account of the history of ...

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  • The Diary Kept by T.E. Lawrence while travelling in Arabia during 1911. [With] The Diary of T.E. Lawrence.

    LAWRENCE, T.E.
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    One of 30 copies. The beautifully designed Corvinus Press edition of the diary that Lawrence kept during his first trip to the Middle East in 1911,...

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  • Boyd Alexander's Last Journey.

    ALEXANDER, herbert.
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    With original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to ...

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  • A Journey into Greece...

    WHELER, George.
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    A large paper copy of Wheler's Journey to Greece, undertaken with Dr Spon. The travels took place in 1675-76. Wheler was specially interested in b...

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  • My Personal Experiences in Equatorial Africa as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.

    PARKE, Thomas Heazle.
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    Parke's important first-hand narrative of the Emin Pasha Relief expedition, one of the last major nineteenth century European expeditions into the...

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  • Scenes in Kafirland,

    GRAHAM, Lieut. Lumley; ROBINSON, Lieut. Hugh.
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    Twenty-one hand-coloured lithographed plates. The rare hand-coloured edition of Graham and Robinson's Scenes in Kafirland. In their preface the aut...

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  • The Chater collection

    ORANGE, James.
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    A fine copy of James Orange's catalogue of the Chater collection. Originally formed by Wyndham Law, the collection was acquired by Sir Catchick Ch...

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  • Blank on the map.

    SHIPTON, Eric.
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    With letter from the author. Shipton's scarcest and most important work with a personal letter tipped in on front pastedownThis book describes an e...

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  • Original Sketches in the Punjaub.

    [PUNJAB].
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    Fine views of Lahore and Amritsar. The drawings were selected from an album produced by the wife of a British army officer serving in the Punjab. T...

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  • Views in India,

    WHITE, George Francis.
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    Well-illustrated account of White's tours in the direction of Mussoore, Simla, the sources of the Jumna and Ganges, etc.First edition; 2 vols, fol...

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  • Collection of five printed scrolls awarded to the Governor of Bengal.

    [FELICITATION SCROLLS].
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    Collection of felicitation scrolls presented to the Governor of Bengal. A unique collection of felicitation scrolls, all in fine condition, all pre...

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  • History of the recent discoveries at Cyrene,

    SMITH, Captain Robert Murdoch; E.A. Porcher.
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    Early photography. An attractive description of the excavations of the long neglected site at Cyrene in Libya between Tripoli and Benghazi, with al...

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