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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The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.
JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Johnston was invited in 1884 on behalf of the Royal Society to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. T...
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The shores and islands of the Mediterranean.
WRIGHT, George Newenham.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Includes views of the Ionian Islands, Malta, Gibraltar and Sicily after drawings by Lieut. Henry Allen, Bartlett and Allom.4to, engraved additiona...
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To the Central African Lakes and back:
THOMSON, Joseph.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00The expedition was sent by the RGS under its African Exploration Fund scheme. It was led by the cartographer Keith Johnston on a route from Dar es...
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Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69.
WHYMPER, Edward.Original price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00Whymper, a leading figure in Alpine mountaineering, narrates in this volume details of his many brilliant climbs including the tragic account of h...
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The Oil Fields of Russia.
BEEBY-THOMPSON, Arthur.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00A richly illustrated work on the oil fields of present day Azerbaijan written by Arthur Beeby-Thompson, a pioneer in the early development of the ...
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The ruin of the Soudan
RUSSELL, Henry.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Scarce. The author was special correspondent to the Daily News and Daily Telegraph whilst resident in first Jeddah and then Suakin. An Arabic spe...
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Iz Zaisana cherez Khami v Tibet i na verkhoviia Zheltoi reki.
PRZHEVALSKY, Nikolai.Original price £5,750.00 - Original price £5,750.00Original price £0.00£5,750.00£5,750.00 - £5,750.00Current price £5,750.00The scarce first edition of przhevalsky's third expedition. In the spring of 1879 Przhevalsky embarked on his first Tibetan expedition, which laste...
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The life, or legend of Gaudama,
BIGANDET, Rev. Paul Ambroise.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Bigandet (1813-1894), French Catholic Missionary and Buddhist Scholar, spent over fifty years in Burma. Based on Burmese sources and printed in Ra...
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History of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Army.
BROOME, Captain Arthur.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £0.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00A detailed narrative of the Bengal Army from the earliest establishment of the British influence in India, to the close of Lord Clive's second adm...
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An Account of the Mutinies in Oudh,
GUBBINS, Martin Richard.Original price £375.00 - Original price £375.00Original price £0.00£375.00£375.00 - £375.00Current price £375.00Second edition. The author was Financial Commissioner for Oudh and describes himself as 'the intimate adviser and confidant of' Sir Henry Lawrence...
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The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier,
TAVERNIER, Jean-Baptiste.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Attractive copy of Tavernier's account of his travels to the East. One of the most popular works of its time and translated into several European ...
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Divers voiages du P. Alexandre de Rhodes
RHODES, Alexandre de.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00Scarce. Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660), 'the father of the romanization of Vietnamese' (Lust), wrote several books relating to his own experience...
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Journal d'un voyage de Constantinople en Pologne,
BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00Ruggiero Boscovich (1711-1787), an Italian-Croatian Jesuit polymath, travelled to Constantinople in 1761 with the Venetian ambassador Pierre Corre...
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The present state of Hayti (Saint Domingo)
FRANKLIN, James.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £0.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00A survey of Haiti at an important time, when the island was united under Boyer. Includes chapters on Haitian independence.First edition. 8vo, vii...
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With the Abyssinians in Somaliland
JENNINGS, Major J[ames] Willes; ADDISON, Christopher.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00Jennings gives an account of the British expedition against Mohamed Abdille Hassan known as the 'Mad Mullah', as well containing much on local cus...
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