Churchill's first book. 'While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force, I wrote a series of letters from the London Daily Telegraph. The favoura...

Johnston was invited in 1884 on behalf of the Royal Society to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. T...

Includes views of the Ionian Islands, Malta, Gibraltar and Sicily after drawings by Lieut. Henry Allen, Bartlett and Allom.4to, engraved additiona...

The 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...

Whymper, a leading figure in Alpine mountaineering, narrates in this volume details of his many brilliant climbs including the tragic account of h...

A richly illustrated work on the oil fields of present day Azerbaijan written by Arthur Beeby-Thompson, a pioneer in the early development of the ...

Scarce. The author was special correspondent to the Daily News and Daily Telegraph whilst resident in first Jeddah and then Suakin. An Arabic spe...

The scarce first edition of przhevalsky's third expedition. In the spring of 1879 Przhevalsky embarked on his first Tibetan expedition, which laste...

Bigandet (1813-1894), French Catholic Missionary and Buddhist Scholar, spent over fifty years in Burma. Based on Burmese sources and printed in Ra...

A 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...

Second edition. The author was Financial Commissioner for Oudh and describes himself as 'the intimate adviser and confidant of' Sir Henry Lawrence...

Attractive 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 ...

Scarce. Alexandre de Rhodes (1591-1660), 'the father of the romanization of Vietnamese' (Lust), wrote several books relating to his own experience...

Ruggiero Boscovich (1711-1787), an Italian-Croatian Jesuit polymath, travelled to Constantinople in 1761 with the Venetian ambassador Pierre Corre...