The 'Duab' is a stretch of land between the Rivers Oxus and Jakartes. The author spent twenty years on and off in Turkestan and this detailed vol...

Rare playing card map. Designed to play the Florentine version of the tarot game, the 'Minchiate'.The card features a miniature map to its upper p...

An imaginary tour of the ancient world undertaken by Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire. He meets notable figures such as Pythagoras and Zoroast...

The author travelled the Yenisey as part of an expedition that set out to study tribes that lived along the banks. Her main interest was in natura...

The 'Arabistan' in the title refers to Khuzestan in Eastern Persia. The author, a member of the Russian legation at Tehran, travelled from Tehran ...

The Shahzada, Nasrullah Khan, spent several months in England deputising for his father, Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, who had intended to visit Queen V...

Originally published in Calcutta. 'The author was an officer of the Bengal Establishment sent to Shiraz for an eight months assignment. An importa...

The 'Arabistan' in the title refers to Khuzestan in Eastern Persia. The author, a member of the Russian legation at Tehran, travelled from Tehran ...

First edition and narrative of the author's travel and life at the east of the Chinese province of Szechuan, close to the Tibet frontier.The autho...

Kawaguchi Ekai was a Japanese Buddhist monk and the first recorded Japanese citizen to travel in Nepal and Tibet. He gives a detailed account of R...

First edition in English. Chapters by leading mountaineers G. Dainelli and J.A. Spranger are also included and provide a remarkable overview of thi...

A comprehensive work covering the geography of the Himalayas with general hints on stalking and hunting in the Himalayas. Combines the natural his...

Scarce. Entertaining narrative of a journey across Mongolia and Siberia, mostly by sled. Hong Kong to St. Petersburg via Canton, Shanghai, Peking,...

The author was surgeon and geologist to the British military expedition which surveyed the valleys of the Tigris-Euphrates in Mesopotamia in 1835-...

Scarce. Greenwood served under Pollock in the first Afghan War and gives an honest view of the atrocities meted out by Pollock's 'Army of Retribut...

Sir Wilfred Thesiger's copy. An important association copy from the library of explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger, who explored Iraq, the ...

'His dogged and loyal work for the Royal Geographical Society and his independent research were always of a high standard, but have not received t...