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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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    Ismailia:

    BAKER, Samuel White.
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    A finely bound copy of Baker's Ismailia.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a four-ye...

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    East African Campaign proclamation and notices].

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    A rare series of legal notices published during WW II by the British Military, setting out laws to be observed in Ethiopia after the British and t...

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    Views of Trinadad

    CAZABON, Michael John.
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    The first edition of 'possibly the finest set of engravings that has ever been produced of the West Indes' (Maclean).Cazabon was born on 20th Sept...

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    Tractato dele più maravigliose cose e più notabile che si trovino in le parte del mondo

    MANDEVILLE, Sir John.
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    The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...

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    The Congo

    STANLEY, Henry Morton.
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    First edition of Stanley's famous account of his travels in the Congo, prompted by a meeting with King Leopold of the Belgians in 1879. In 1879 St...

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    Gun running and the North-West Frontier.

    KEPPEL, Arnold.
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    Keppel, a special correspondent of The Times, was on the North-West frontier and covered the activity of the Mekran Field force which was set up t...

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    Triumphant Pilgrimage.

    RUTTER, Owen.
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    Rutter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, travelled extensively in Arabia visiting the Holy cities including Mecca.First edition. 8vo, 2...

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    Bibliographia Geographica Palaestinae.

    TOBLER, Titus.
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    A bibliography of travels to the Holy Land, covering books in all languages totalling about 2,500 works on Palestine and the Near East, originally...

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    Sketches of China and the Chinese.

    BORGET, Auguste.
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    Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...

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    An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...]

    STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard.
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    The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...

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    The last of the Arctic voyages;

    BELCHER, Sir Edward.
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    Belcher's voyage was the last officially sent in search of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared during an Arctic expedition in 1845. Belcher, in his...

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  • Memoirs of the Baron de Tott,

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    An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...

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    Emin Pasha

    MOUNTENEY-JEPHSON A[rthur] J[ermy].
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    Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...

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  • Tibet Past & Present.

    BELL, Sir Charles.
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    Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...

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    China proper.

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    Scarce complete set of the secret reports on China compiled for Naval Intelligence.Comprises sections on physical geography, history, peoples, mod...

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  • 112615

    Reconnoitring Central Asia.

    MARVIN, Charles.
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    Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...

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    Illustrations of China and its People.

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    Thomson's most significant work. Thomson's most significant work, made as he travelled through China between 1868 and 1872.Richard Ovenden has argu...

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    After Everest.

    TENZING, Norgay Sherpa; BARNES, Malcolm
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    Signed by Tenzing. This volume contains tales of Norgay Tenzing's various travels and climbs following his historic ascent of Everest with Sir Edmu...

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    Arabian Oil Ventures.

    PHILBY, Harry St. John B.
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    Philby's scarce final book. A history of the oil industry in Arabia from the end of WWI, by the renowned Arabist.First edition, 8vo, 134pp., a por...

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  • 111779_2 111779

    The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen

    CARTER, Howard; MACE, A.C.
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    The most famous archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. First edition of the three-volume Tut-Ankh-Amen, Howard Carter's account of the ...

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    A Polar reconnaissance.

    MARKHAM, Albert Hastings.
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    Markham's voyage to the Barents Sea during the navigable season in order to ascertain the best route for future Polar discovery. Markham's view th...

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