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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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    Ancient accounts of India and China, by two Mohammedan travellers.

    SULAIMAN EL TAJIR; RENAUDOT, Eusébe (translator).
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    Scarce. 'Sulaiman's works had a profound effect on many Arabic and Persian geographers and are of exceptional importance for the study of early Is...

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    Pilgrimage to the Caaba and Charing Cross.

    AHMAD HASSAN, Hafiz.
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    The author was treasurer and advisor to the Nawab of Tonk, a principality in the northwest of India, now part of the Indian state of Rajasthan. Wh...

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    Jerusalem.

    HOLLAR, Wenceslaus.
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    An exceptionally fine impression of Hollar's panorama of Jerusalem.Wenceslaus Hollar contributed engraved plates to numerous Bibles, showing relig...

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    In the High Himalayas.

    WHISTLER, Hugh.
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    Whistler, a fellow of the Zoological Society and a serving member of the Indian (Imperial) police, spent much of his leave in the Himalayas north ...

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    An Unexplored Pass.

    FEATHERSTONE, B[alford] K[inchant].
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    This scarce volume narrates an attempt to cross the Muztagh Pass in 1922. Capt. Featherstone was the only European member of the expedition which...

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  • A Winter in the Azores; and a summer at the baths of the Furnes.

    BULLAR, Joseph.
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    Setting out in 1838, Joseph and Henry Bullar spent seven months in the Azores. They travelled to the islands of Sao Miguel, Faial, Pico, Sao Jorg...

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    The Glory of the Shia World.

    SYKES, Major Percy Molesworth.
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    A fictional tale which the author intended to be 'a second Hajji Baba, which would serve as a true picture of Persia some ten years ago, before co...

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    A Description of the Burmese Empire, compiled chiefly from Native Documents by the Rev. Father Sangermano, and translated from his Ms.

    SANGERMANO, Vincentius; William Tandy, translator.
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    From the library of renowned 19th-century woman bibliophile. Sangermano, a missionary, worked in Burma from 1783 to 1806. His book provides a good ...

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    Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po.

    [BURTON, Richard Francis].
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    'Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he ...

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    The slave trade in Africa in 1872

    BERLIOUX, Etienne Felix.
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    An English abridgement of Etienne Felix Berlioux's (1828-1920) La traite orientale on the slave trade from the Sudan, the Nile basin and East Afri...

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    Greece,

    WORDSWORTH, Christopher.
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    'A beautifully produced work' (Blackmer). An attractive copy of this richly illustrated and wide ranging work on Greece.New edition. 8vo, engraved...

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    The Heart of a Continent.

    YOUNGHUSBAND, Capt. Frank E.
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    The title that established Younghusband as a serious Central Asian explorer. Starting in Manchuria, he continued to the Gobi Desert, to Kashmir an...

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    To the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi

    MOHR, Edward.
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    Scarce. 'A German sportsman, Mohr travelled to the Victoria Falls partly for the sake of hunting, partly in the hope of making geographical discov...

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    Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe,

    KHAN, Mirza Abu Taleb; STEWART, Charles (translator).
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    Account of Western society by an Indian poet. An entertaining account of Khan's impressions and remarks on the travels he made West from his hometo...

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    Description de L'Arabie [WITH] Voyage en Arabie & en d'autres pays circonvoisins.

    NIEBUHR, Carsten.
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    The famous account of the Royal Danish Expedition (1761-1767) to the Middle East, Egypt, Persia and India, and the return journey. the first scien...

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    Across Coveted Lands,

    LANDOR, A. Henry Savage.
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    The account of a journey across Persia to Calcutta. Much information on Persia, also Afghanistan and Baluchistan.First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, vii, ...

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    Across Thibet

    BONVALOT, Gabriel.
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    Scarce in original cloth. Narrative of the journey with Henri d'Orleans from Jarkent to Chamdo through the Tien Shan and Tibet in the winter of 18...

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    The story of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa,

    ROWLEY, Henry.
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    Scarce. Although a missionary work, the book is full of valuable topographical information as well as containing interesting data on natural histo...

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