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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In Darkest Africa
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Deluxe edition of Stanley. The deluxe edition of Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to ...
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On a raft, and through the desert:
ELLIS, Tristram.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /In 1879 Tristram Ellis (1844-1922), a successful watercolour artist, boarded a steamship for Alexandria with the aim of visiting Syria, Asia Minor...
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A Voyage to Arabia Fœlix
LA ROQUE, Jean de.Original price £4,000.00 - Original price £4,000.00Original price £0.00£4,000.00£4,000.00 - £4,000.00Current price £4,000.00| /The first part of La Roque's Voyage to Arabia Fœlix describes Yemen and Mocha. Mocha at this time was a considerable trading centre. The second pa...
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Journal of an Embassy
CRAWFURD, JohnOriginal price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /The narrative of Crawfurd's Embassy to Burma. In 1827, following the First Anglo-Burmese War, John Crawfurd was chosen to travel to Burma (now Mya...
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Explorations in Turkestan
PUMPELLY, Raphael, editor.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /The American geologist Raphael Pumpelly led this important scientific expedition to Anau in Russian Turkestan in 1903-1904. He was accompanied by ...
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Three years in Persia
FOWLER, George.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /Scarce and interesting account of Persia. Fowler was a British diplomat in Tehran during the last years of the reign of Fath Ali Shah. 'A book ful...
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A picturesque illustration of the scenery, animals, and native inhabitants of the island of Ceylon.
DANIELL, Samuel.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| /Magnificent copies of Samuel Daniell's Ceylon and African Scenery, his two masterworks, combined in a fine contemporary binding. Samuel Daniell (1...
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Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil
SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...
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The Straits Times Annual
SINGAPOREOriginal price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...
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Essai sur la construction navale des peuples extra-européens
PARIS, François-Edmond.Original price £20,000.00 - Original price £20,000.00Original price £0.00£20,000.00£20,000.00 - £20,000.00Current price £20,000.00| /With sketches from the french grands voyages. Paris' comprehensive survey of sailing vessels and a valuable contribution to preserving the artifact...
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;
LIVINGSTONE, David.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /Presentation copy of Livingstone's first expedition. A presentation copy 'Sir Thomas Dyke Acland/ with the kindest salutations/ of his friend/ Davi...
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The caravan route
SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...
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The Yangtze Gorges in pictures and prose.
LE PALUD, A. M.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /With the rare dust-wrapper. Le Palud's account of a journey from Chungking to Ichang illustrated with fine photographs4to, [iv], xviii pp., large ...
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Travels, researches, and missionary labours,
KRAPF, Rev Dr. J.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Krapf was the first European to see Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. Important account by the German missionary who during his travels collected info...
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Coomassie and Magdala:
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Stanley's lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa u...
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The game of British East Africa
STIGAND, Capt. C[hauncey] H[ugh].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| /'A handsome volume that examines wild game, its habitat, and spoor within Kenya, Uganda, and the eastern Congo regions. Stigand observes game trai...
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A walk across Africa
GRANT, James Augustus.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /Inscribed to the author's mother. inscribed 'To my dearest Mother', and dated 8 December 1864.One of the scarcest Nile accounts and a monumental wo...
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Through South Africa...
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /Inscribed copy. Rare inscribed copy of Stanley's final book. It consists of articles originally published in the journal, South Africa. Stanley had...
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The Land of Midian (Revisited).
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £7,500.00 - Original price £7,500.00Original price £0.00£7,500.00£7,500.00 - £7,500.00Current price £7,500.00| /Inscribed copy. Burton's second expedition to Midian, the area of north-west Arabia on the opposite bank of the Red Sea from the Sinai Peninsular, ...
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AEI. Arabia Egypt India.
BURTON, Isabel.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Isabel Burton's second book detailing a journey made with her husband to India, via Arabia and Egypt between 1875 and 1876. Although the work is p...
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Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean,
WILDE, William Robert Wills.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, surgeon and Irish antiquary, was the father of Oscar Wilde. Wilde travelled for nine months as medical attendant t...
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