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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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    A history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,

    PLAYFAIR, Captain Robert Lambert.
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    The first major history of Yemen by an British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 200...

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    Maps of Iraq

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    Maps include Baghdad and Environs, The Environs of Basrah and several road maps to Southern and Northern Iraq.Revised and enlarged edition. Folio ...

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    Unexplored Syria.

    BURTON, Richard Francis; TYRWHITT DRAKE, Charles F.
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    Burton was Consul at Damascus from 1865-1871. During that period Tyrwhitt-Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fun...

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    How I Found Livingstone.

    STANLEY, Henry Morton.
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    'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a nineteenth-century reader with the wonder...

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    The Arab of the desert.

    DICKSON, H.R.P.
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    Preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into the...

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    Six months in Ascension.

    GILL, Isobel Sara.
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    Gill's account of her experiences on the Atlantic island of Ascension as part of an 1867 scientific expedition led by her husband, the astronomer ...

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    Personal observations on Sindh;

    POSTANS, Thomas.
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    Mrs Postans' advance copy. Postans (1808-46) was assistant to the political agent in Sindh and Baluchistan. A comprehensive description of Sindh in...

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    Seven years in South Africa:

    HOLUB, Dr. Emil
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    Holub, an Austrian, arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields. Holub gives accounts of pipe mining and their are ...

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    The northern barrier of India.

    DREW, Frederic.
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    Drew made a nine year stay in Kashmir between 1862 and 1871, and travelled widely in the country.First edition. 8vo, xii, 336 pp., 3 Woodbury-type...

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    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.

    BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.
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    A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...

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    Bibliographie Ionienne,

    LEGRAND, Emile; Hubert Pernot.
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    A bibliography of works published in or about the Ionian Islands. With collation, basic description and occasional additional information on the w...

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  • 112740_2 112740

    Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia,

    BLIGH, William; Owen Rutter, editor.
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    A beautifully bound copy of Bligh's log of the journey from Timor to Batavia, and that of the return voyage to England after the 1789 mutiny.First...

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    Euphrates Valley route to India,

    ANDREW, Sir William.
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    Andrews, an East Indian Railway official, had propoped a railway along Euphrates, linking Europe with the Arabian Gulf at Basra, as a direct route...

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    Cabool:

    BURNES, Sir Alexander.
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    Account of Burnes' British commercial mission to the Court of the Emir of Kabul in 1837-38. The Mission was a failure and in 1839 Burnes re-entere...

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    An account of the kingdom of Caubul,

    ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart.
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    the first detailed account of Afghanistan by a western observer. Elphinstone collected important information on the geography, government, languag...

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    Two years in Kurdistan.

    HAY, W.R.
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    An important work written while Hay was serving in the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia 'always in more or less remote parts of the country'.Fi...

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    Histoire des Wahabis,

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    A very attractive copy of he first European study of the origins and history of Wahabism.The book starts with an account of the conversion of Moha...

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    Three Visits to Madagascar

    ELLIS, Rev William
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    Ellis (1794-1871), was sent to Madagascar by the London Missionary Society to investigate the treatment of Christians on the island. The work cont...

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