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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. 

  • The Dogs on Deck.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the expedition dogs on board the Terra Nova.'The Expedi...

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  • P.O. Evans sewing tent.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Petty Officer Edgar Evans, who died on the return journ...

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  • Meares and the Pianola.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Cecil Meares sitting at the pianolo. Meares, who was i...

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  • Anton cutting Keohane's hair.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the Ukrainian groom Anton Omelchenko cutting the hair o...

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  • Memorial Cross to Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Evans. Observation Hill, Ross Island, Antarctica.

    [SCOTT, Captain].
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    To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield'. Classic photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the cross erecte...

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  • Lt. Evans.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Lieut. Edward Evans, later Admiral and 1st Baron Mounte...

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  • Cinematographing in the ice pack.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Ponting using his cinematograph camera to record the Te...

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  • Simpson in his laboratory.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing George 'Sunny Jim' Simpson, the expedition's meteorolog...

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  • Packing sugar for sledging rations.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing Cecil Meares and Thomas Clissold the cook, packing suga...

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  • Unloading the motor sledge that sank through the ice.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) taken on 8th January 1911, showing the first of the motor sledge...

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  • Whisky for the pony that had to swim ashore.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913) taken on 8th February 1911, showing four members of the expediti...

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  • Frostbite.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913).The Terra Nova expedition was supposed to be the high-water mark...

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  • Gran.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913). 'Lt. Tryggve Gran, one of the most expert ski runners of Norway...

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  • Stareek.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing the husky named Stareek, one of the members of the dog ...

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  • Finnesko with Crampons.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing a pair of finnesko (boots made by the Sami people of re...

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  • Simpson and the Magnetic hut.

    PONTING, Herbert G.
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    Classic Ponting photograph from Captain Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910-1913), showing meteorologist George Simpson (1878-1965) outside the Ma...

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  • Watercolour Album.

    [CHINA.
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    China under the Qing dynasty. A remarkable collection of sixty-four fine large-format Chinese watercolours with subjects depicting tradesmen, flowe...

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  • Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.

    RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas.
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    The definitive edition. The final, expanded edition of this radical tour-de-force of global commerce and politics. The definitive version of the te...

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  • Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople et des rives du Bosphore.

    MELLING, Antoine Ignace.
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    Views of Istanbul in full green morocco. A finely bound example of the first edition of the grandest book of engraved views of Constantinople. "One...

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  • Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls,

    OATES, Frank.
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    Fine copy. An exceptionally well preserved example. Oates was one of the first Europeans to see the Victoria Falls in full flood, having travelled ...

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  • Views of Cintra.

    BURNETT, William Hickling.
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    Romantic views of Sintra. A fine visual record of Sintra, near Lisbon. A long-time royal sanctuary, the area's forested terrain is studded with pas...

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