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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. 

  • Travels, researches, and missionary labours,

    KRAPF, Rev Dr. J.
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    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.
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    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].
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    '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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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  • Sand-buried ruins of Khotan.

    STEIN, Sir Marc Aurel.
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    The general narrative of Stein's first exploration of Central Asia, 1900-01. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs he entered Chinese Turkestan an...

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  • Travels to the city of the Caliphs,

    WELLSTED, James Raymond.
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    Important travels through the Gulf. Much of this work is based on the travels of Lieut. Ormsby, conveyed to Wellsted verbally or through manuscript...

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  • Narrative of a journey round the World,

    SIMPSON, Sir George.
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    Simpson was head of the Hudson Bay Company and the dominant figure in the American fur trade in the nineteenth century. The narrative documents Si...

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  • The history of Nadir Shah,

    FRASER, James
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    Blackmer copy. Fraser was Resident at Surat from 1730-40 and then returned as Factor for the East India company, 1743-9. This work is important for...

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  • Reconnoitring in Abyssinia:

    WILKINS, H. St. Clair.
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    Wilkins (1828-1896), 'commanded the Royal Engineers throughout the Abyssinian expedition of 1868, where the difficult terrain required engineering...

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  • The overland route to India,

    TILLOTSON, John.
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    A very good copy of a large format illustrated work showing the route from England to India via the great cities of the Middle East. An early reis...

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  • [Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

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  • [Chinese Craft on the Pearl River.

    [CHINESE SCHOOL].
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    Well executed and highly atmospheric watercolours capturing the importance of the river for trade in early nineteenth century China.A fine group o...

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