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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Debenham grinding Geological specimens.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $968.00 - Original price $968.00Original price $0.00$968.00$968.00 - $968.00Current price $968.00| /Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Frank Debenham, one of the geologists on the expedition...
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Clissold, Anton and Emperor Penguin.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $968.00 - Original price $968.00Original price $0.00$968.00$968.00 - $968.00Current price $968.00| /Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) showing the expedition cook Thomas Clissold and Anton Omelchenko...
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Clissold making bread.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $968.00 - Original price $968.00Original price $0.00$968.00$968.00 - $968.00Current price $968.00| /Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition's chef Thomas Clissold making bread for ...
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Bowers returned from Southern journey.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $968.00 - Original price $968.00Original price $0.00$968.00$968.00 - $968.00Current price $968.00| /Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913). Showing Lieut. Henry Robertson Bowers, known as 'Birdie', one o...
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Davis - ships carpenter - building Cape Evans hut.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $839.00 - Original price $839.00Original price $0.00$839.00$839.00 - $839.00Current price $839.00| /Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition's shipwright and carpenter Francis Davie...
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Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow, and St. Petersburgh, during the late Russian invasion of Khiva;
ABBOTT, Capt. James.Original price $3,224.00 - Original price $3,224.00Original price $0.00$3,224.00$3,224.00 - $3,224.00Current price $3,224.00| /Inscribed presentation copy. Abbott was an officer in the Bengal Artillery and was sent on a political mission by the British envoy in Harat to the...
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Mongoliia i Amdo i mertvyi gorod Khara-Khoto [Mongolia, and Amdo, and the dead city of Khara-Khoto].
KOZLOV, Petr Kuzmich.Original price $5,481.00 - Original price $5,481.00Original price $0.00$5,481.00$5,481.00 - $5,481.00Current price $5,481.00| /A fine copy of Kozlov's detailed account of his groundbreaking expedition to the Gobi desert and the excavation of Khara-Khoto between 1907 and 19...
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Annapurna
HERZOG, Maurice.Original price $1,741.00 - Original price $1,741.00Original price $0.00$1,741.00$1,741.00 - $1,741.00Current price $1,741.00| /Inscribed by author. Herzog (1919-2012) was a French mountaineer who led this remarkable ascent of Annapurna, one of the highest mountains in the w...
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Coronation Everest.
MORRIS, James.Original price $1,419.00 - Original price $1,419.00Original price $0.00$1,419.00$1,419.00 - $1,419.00Current price $1,419.00| /Signed by Edmund Hillary. The author James (later Jan) Morris was the 'anonymous' Times special correspondent who had joined the successful Everest...
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Voyage of His Majesty's ship Alceste,
M'LEOD, John.Original price $871.00 - Original price $871.00Original price $0.00$871.00$871.00 - $871.00Current price $871.00| /Best edition, enlarged and corrected. Contains descriptions of the Ryukyus (then a Chinese protectorate) and Canton (Guangzhou).'This voyage was u...
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Select views of the rock and fortress of Gibraltar.
CARTER, John Money.Original price $23,855.00 - Original price $23,855.00Original price $0.00$23,855.00$23,855.00 - $23,855.00Current price $23,855.00| /Hand coloured lithographs mounted on card as issued. Carter's rare views of Gibraltar, here in the deluxe issue with hand coloured lithographs. Car...
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Three years' wanderings in
FORTUNE, Robert.Original price $1,419.00 - Original price $1,419.00Original price $0.00$1,419.00$1,419.00 - $1,419.00Current price $1,419.00| /Travels between 1843 and 1845 in Kuangtung, Fukien, the Chekiang coast, and Shanghai. Fortune (1812-1880) was a Scottish botanist, plant hunter an...
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Elements of Chinese grammar,
MARSHMAN, Joshua.Original price $6,448.00 - Original price $6,448.00Original price $0.00$6,448.00$6,448.00 - $6,448.00Current price $6,448.00| /A pioneering work. Scarce. Two issues of this work were made in 1814. This second issue has Chinese characters on title and a 2-page errata, it als...
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The Arab of Mesopotamia.
[BELL, Gertrude].Original price $1,741.00 - Original price $1,741.00Original price $0.00$1,741.00$1,741.00 - $1,741.00Current price $1,741.00| /A tribal geography. Described in Bell's own words as a 'tribal geography', and published anonymously, Bell was annoyed by the general assumption th...
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De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Susepta ab Societate Iesu,
RICCI, Matteo; TRIGAULT, Nicholas.Original price $9,671.00 - Original price $9,671.00Original price $0.00$9,671.00$9,671.00 - $9,671.00Current price $9,671.00| /The most important work on China since Marco Polo. The earliest authoritative source of information on China available in Europe at that time. At h...
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Nanda Devi.
SHIPTON, E[ric].Original price $2,579.00 - Original price $2,579.00Original price $0.00$2,579.00$2,579.00 - $2,579.00Current price $2,579.00| /With dust-wrapper. 'Shipton was a natural choice for the Mount Everest expedition of 1933 on which he reached 27,900 feet, but the experience of th...
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The Karakorams and Kashmir
ECKENSTEIN, Oscar.Original price $4,514.00 - Original price $4,514.00Original price $0.00$4,514.00$4,514.00 - $4,514.00Current price $4,514.00| /Scarce personal reminiscences of Conway's 1892 Karakoram expedition.Eckenstein (1859 – 1921), was a member of the expedition led by Sir Martin Con...
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The Diary of W. Lashly.
LASHLY, William.Original price $19,342.00 - Original price $19,342.00Original price $0.00$19,342.00$19,342.00 - $19,342.00Current price $19,342.00| /With the glassine wrapper - a remarkable survival. Lashly served on both Scott expeditions, but this portion of his diary covers his heroic return ...
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Little America
BYRD, Richard Evelyn.Original price $613.00 - Original price $613.00Original price $0.00$613.00$613.00 - $613.00Current price $613.00| /Author's autograph edition. 'The true first edition of Byrd's official narrative of his initial Antarctic expedition. For many it marks the end of ...
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The History of America.
ROBERTSON, William.Original price $3,224.00 - Original price $3,224.00Original price $0.00$3,224.00$3,224.00 - $3,224.00Current price $3,224.00| /This was the first sustained attempt to describe the discovery, conquest and settlement of Spanish America since Herrera's Décadas. Robertson inte...
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Illustrationes Florae novae hollandiae
BAUER, Ferdinand.Original price $64,473.00 - Original price $64,473.00Original price $0.00$64,473.00$64,473.00 - $64,473.00Current price $64,473.00| /Extremely rare botanical drawings of australia with fine provenance. One of six scientists chosen by Sir Joseph Banks to accompany Matthew Flinders...
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