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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The Mongols.
HOWORTH, Henry H.Original price $3,213.00 - Original price $3,213.00Original price $0.00$3,213.00$3,213.00 - $3,213.00Current price $3,213.00A monumental compilation and comparison of the knowledge available in European languages in the late nineteenth century. Howorth used, among other...
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City of Nanking.
[CHINA].Original price $1,221.00 - Original price $1,221.00Original price $1,221.00$1,221.00$1,221.00 - $1,221.00Current price $1,221.00Rare Liverpool printed broadside. The text consists of a quote from Lord Byron followed by a nineteen-line text praising the city and giving detai...
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[Chinese Pirates].
NEUMANN, Charles Fried., translator.Original price $1,093.00 - Original price $1,093.00Original price $1,093.00$1,093.00$1,093.00 - $1,093.00Current price $1,093.00Translations from the Chinese and Armenian, with notes and illustrations.I. History of the pirates who infested the China Sea, from 1807 to 1810.I...
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The Angus Ivan Ward Collection of Russian accounts of Mongolia and China.
[MONGOLIA and CHINA].Original price $37,913.00 - Original price $37,913.00Original price $37,913.00$37,913.00$37,913.00 - $37,913.00Current price $37,913.00Extensive collection of Russian works focusing mostly on Northern China and Mongolia, including important and rare travel, trade and exploration a...
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L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale
NIEUHOFF, Jean.Original price $8,354.00 - Original price $8,354.00Original price $8,354.00$8,354.00$8,354.00 - $8,354.00Current price $8,354.00The Dutch being at the height of their power, having supplanted the Portuguese, desired to gain access to China and a portion of the China trade. ...
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The history of the court of the king of China. Out of French.
[BAUDIER, Michel.]Original price $3,535.00 - Original price $3,535.00Original price $3,535.00$3,535.00$3,535.00 - $3,535.00Current price $3,535.00The first separate edition of Baudier's survey of the Chinese court, which supposedly he based on the narrative of a Jesuit who had travelled in t...
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My second journey through Equatorial Africa
WISSMAN, Hermann vonOriginal price $1,221.00 - Original price $1,221.00Original price $1,221.00$1,221.00$1,221.00 - $1,221.00Current price $1,221.00"[The author] travelled through the Belgian Congo, then on through both British and German East Africa. His narrative recounts the difficulties of...
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The Mammals of China and Mongolia.
ALLEN, Glover M.Original price $3,856.00 - Original price $3,856.00Original price $3,856.00$3,856.00$3,856.00 - $3,856.00Current price $3,856.00The Central Asiatic Expedition went into Mongolia to seek and discover the ancestry of man, and explore the natural history of the region. Andrews...
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China:
ALLOM, Thomas.Original price $2,571.00 - Original price $2,571.00Original price $0.00$2,571.00$2,571.00 - $2,571.00Current price $2,571.00Including views of Hong Kong, Canton, Macao, Nanjing, and Shanghai. At a time of increased interest in China, Thomas Allom (1804-1872) the noted to...
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Wild life in China;
LANNING, George.Original price $193.00 - Original price $193.00Original price $193.00$193.00$193.00 - $193.00Current price $193.00'There are two interesting chapters on Chinese field sports, with sections on tiger, leopard and a few other species of big game. The appendix con...
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Voyage a travers la Mongolie et la Chine.
PIASSETSKY, P.Original price $836.00 - Original price $836.00Original price $836.00$836.00$836.00 - $836.00Current price $836.00The author was the artist on Colonel Sosnovsky's scientific expedition across Siberia to Lake Baikal and Mongolia in 1874-75. This was one of the ...
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James Cook Surveyor of Newfoundland
SKELTON, R.A. (editor).Original price $322.00 - Original price $322.00Original price $0.00$322.00$322.00 - $322.00Current price $322.00Cook the surveyor. Reproduced in facsimile from the copy in the library of the University of California at Los Angeles.2 parts, one of 365 copies, ...
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Scott at his desk - Cape Evans.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $964.00 - Original price $964.00Original price $0.00$964.00$964.00 - $964.00Current price $964.00Taken on 7th October 1911, this is one of the most famous images shot by Ponting during his time in the Antarctic as part of Captain Scott's Terra...
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Oates in the stable.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $836.00 - Original price $836.00Original price $0.00$836.00$836.00 - $836.00Current price $836.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Capt. Oates with the Manchurian ponies, which had been ...
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Dyne's Anemometer.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $964.00 - Original price $964.00Original price $0.00$964.00$964.00 - $964.00Current price $964.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Dyne's anemometer in the meteorologist George Simpson's...
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Ponting with his camera sledge.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $964.00 - Original price $964.00Original price $0.00$964.00$964.00 - $964.00Current price $964.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913).Ponting was of the first people to utilise a handheld cine camer...
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Taylor, Debenham and Gran.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $964.00 - Original price $964.00Original price $0.00$964.00$964.00 - $964.00Current price $964.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing T. Griffith 'Grif' Taylor, Frank Debenham, and Tryggve ...
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Lt. Evans washing his hands.
PONTING, Herbert G.Original price $836.00 - Original price $836.00Original price $0.00$836.00$836.00 - $836.00Current price $836.00Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Lieut. Evans crouching down on his haunches washing his...
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