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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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  • 111408_2 111408

    Flights over the ancient cities of Iran.

    SCHMIDT, Erich F.
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    Special publication of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. A fine record of some the great archaeological sites of Iran as seen f...

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  • 111401_2 111401

    Amurath to Amurath.

    BELL, Gertrude Lowthian
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    Bell's account of her five-month journey along the Euphrates. Scarce.Second edition, 8vo. xvii, 370 pp., frontispiece and 235 illustrations, large...

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  • 109121_2 109121

    Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido;

    KEPPEL, Capt. the Hon Henry.
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    The suppression of piracy off Borneo. Henry Keppel's Expedition to Borneo is a primary account for the suppression of piracy off Borneo.'In August ...

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  • 110970_2 110970

    A Voyage round the World,

    ANSON, George.
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    A landmark of eighteenth-century English circumnavigation. Anson's voyage recounts the expedition made to cut off Spanish supplies of wealth from S...

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  • 111439_2 111439

    Soldiers of the Prophet.

    MURPHY, Charles C. R.
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    A scarce account of military and naval operations in Arab lands including the Arabian Gulf in the period 1910-1918. Includes the rebellion in Oman...

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  • 110318_2 110318

    A description of the East and some other countries [bound with]

    POCOCKE, R.
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    One of the most important books on the Eastern Mediterranean. The first volume contains a description of Egypt, with volume two describing Palestin...

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  • 69428_2 69428

    Route of Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.B.

    HANSON, Captain [James].
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    First and only edition. Hanson, 'Late Assistant Quarter-Master-General with the Field Army of the Madras Establishment', acted as ADC to Sir Miles...

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  • 111324_2 111324

    Collection des costumes Espagnols anciens et modernes.

    CRUZ CANO Y OLEMEDILLA, Juan de la.
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    With 72 hand-coloured plates. First French edition of Cruz Cano Y Olemedilla's popular Spanish work, with 72 hand-coloured plates. The collection o...

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  • 111328_10 111328

    Recueil des differens costumes des principaux officiers et magistrats de la porte; et des peoples sujets de l'empire othoman.

    [TURKISH COSTUME]; [WOLFGANG, Andreas Matthäus].
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    Two extremely rare works bound in a single volume: the first work illustrating the costume of the Ottoman court and the Ottoman empire, almost cer...

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  • 91640_2 91640

    Mexican people.

    Shapero Rare Books
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    Representation of 18 different figures similar to "cries". Male and female figures, one child. 4 native indians of Latin America, in traditional c...

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  • 86421_2 86421

    Il Gazzettiere Americano

    [AMERICAS].
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    A crisp copy of this wide-ranging topographical dictionary of the New World, in the preferred Italian version. Published in English a year earlier...

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  • 67314

    Westminster from Waterloo Bridge.

    BOYS, Thomas Shotter.
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    Tinted Lithograph.Abbey Scenery 239. From 'London As It Is'.

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  • 66941_2 66941

    The diary of William Hedges, Esq. (afterwards Sir William Hedges),

    HEDGES, William.
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    'An important glimpse of the activities of the East IndiaCompany in the period 1682 to 1684' (Riddick). Hedges was a director of the Company and p...

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  • 111290

    A brief sketch of the Prophet of Islam.

    ALI, Muhammad.
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    Written by Ali 'for all fair-minded non-Muslims on the occasion of the fourteenth centenary of that great benefactor of humanity'.First edition. 8...

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  • 111289_2 111289

    Petromin handbook.

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    The history of Petromin (The General Petroleum and Mineral Organization) from its foundation in 1962 up to 1977. Petromin was founded to develop p...

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  • 111239_2 111239

    Mycenae;

    SCHLIEMANN, Dr. Henry.
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    'It is a spectacular book and was a roaring success... No one could overlook or ignore this book and as much as the discovery of Troy, this book w...

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  • 109902_2 109902

    A Journey from London to Persepolis;

    USSHER, John.
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    An account of Ussher's travels through Russian Dagestan at the time of the Shami uprising, and thence south to view the antiquities of Mesopotamia...

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