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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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    The works of ...

    MONTAGU, Lady Mary Wortley.
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    Lady Mary's husband was appointed ambassador to the Porte in 1716, and she accompanied him to Constantinople. During her sojourn in Turkey the aut...

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    The present state of the Morea

    RANDOLPH, Bernard.
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    'Randolph (bap. 1643 - d. after 1689?)... was living in Smyrna [by 1664] and he traded extensively through the Aegean region of the Ottoman empire...

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    Journal of a residence in England,

    NAJAF KOOLEE MEERZA, H.R.H.
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    Rare. Translated from the original Persian by Assad Yacoub Kayat. An account of the residence in England, and journey there from Syria and the sub...

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    The River War.

    [MILITARY]. CHURCHILL, Winston.
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    Churchill's account of his adventures during the war in the Sudan. The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malak...

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    Dahomey and the Dahomans:

    FORBES, Frederick.
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    Forbes was a prominent anti-slavery campaigner. He is particularly interesting here on local customs and festivals, which are attractively illustr...

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    Athenes ancienne et nouvelle.

    GUILLET de SAINT-GEORGE, Andre Georges.
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    The material of the work comes from Giraud, the French Consul in Athens, and from the Capuchin monks settled there, judiciously mixed with scholar...

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    Proceedings of the Levant Company, respecting the Surrender of their Charters, 1825.

    [? GRENVILLE, William Wyndham, 1st Baron Grenville].
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    Company of Merchants Trading to the Levant. The second work concerning trade with the Levant shows the increase in commercial activity between Grea...

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    Karamania,

    BEAUFORT, Sir Francis.
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    An important archaeological survey. In 1810 Beaufort was appointed senior officer at Smyrna in command of the Frederickssteen; in August he began t...

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    Russian projects against India

    EDWARDS, H. Sutherland.
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    An excellent history of Russian attempts to gain access to India via Central Asia.First edition. 8vo, iv, 295 pp., folding colour map, 20 pages' a...

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    A journey to Mequinez;

    WINDUS, John.
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    An early English account of Morocco. Windus was the historian of a mission dispatched by George I in 1720 under Commodore Charles Stewart, to trea...

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    Bradford on Mt Washington.

    WASHBURN, Bradford
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    Bradford Washburn was one of America's foremost mountaineers. He led many first ascents and established new routes on several Alaskan peaks, often...

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    Londinium Redivivum

    MALCOLM, James Peller.
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    The first edition of James Peller Malcom's (1767-1865) Londinium Redivivum ('London Renewed'), a historical survey of the city compiled from paroc...

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    Travels to discover the source of the Nile,

    BRUCE, James.
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    'In 1768, with Italian artist and friend Luigi Balugani, Bruce resolved to mount an expedition to search for the source of the Nile River. They we...

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    First footsteps in East Africa.

    BURTON, Richard Francis.
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    The forbidden city of Harar. Burton's first expedition to Somalia, made in order to explore the forbidden city of Harar (which he was the first Eur...

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    Historical portraiture of leading events in the life of Ali Pacha,

    DAVENPORT, W.
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    The strikingly dramatized scenes depicted were evidently chosen by Davenport to give a romantic view of Ali Pacha's life. The text was taken from ...

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