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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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    Narrative of travels and discoveries in northern and central Africa, in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824 ...

    DENHAM, Major Dixon; CLAPPERTON, Capt. Hugh.
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    An official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Denham and Clapperton were...

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    Pictures of life in Mexico.

    MASON, R.H.
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    An account of a tour of Mexico in 1848-49. The author sets out to provide an entertaining account rich in anecdote. Scarce.First edition, 2 volume...

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    Arctic searching expedition:

    RICHARDSON, John.
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    Richardson, the noted naturalist, accompanied Franklin on his first and second expeditions. The present work includes the journals of Richardson a...

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    Stamboul Souvenir d'Orient.

    PREZIOSI, Amadeo.
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    Superb evocative plates of Constantinople, its people and their customs. A native of Malta, Preziosi first visited Istanbul in 1842; depicting the ...

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    Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey, and Greece, in 1828-9.

    ALCOCK, Thomas.
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    Scarce privately printed account of the author's travels through the region at the time of the Russo-Turkish War. The section on Greece includes i...

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    Uganda for a holiday.

    TREVES, Frederick.
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    Sir Frederick Treves was the prominent Victorian surgeon famous for treating Joseph Merrick sometimes known 'The Elephant Man'. He spent much time...

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    In the Grip of the Nyika:

    PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. John Henry.
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    'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa... there is also a feverish encou...

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    Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland;

    [LAENNEC, R.-T.-H.]; CLARK, James.
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    Early account in English of the stethoscope. Inscribed at foot of title: 'To Hyett Esq / with author's compliments'.Pages 153-59 contain an account...

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    Antiquities, historical and monumental, of the county of Cornwall.

    BORLASE, William.
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    An attractive copy of the standard county history of Cornwall, by the rector of Ludvagan, a man from an old Cornish family. Includes The Scilly Is...

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    A journey through England. In familiar letters from a gentleman here, to his friend abroad.

    [MACKY, John].
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    The Scottish journey is written in a series of letters to better inform those south of the border of the positive aspects of Scotland and the Scot...

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    The travels of Cyrus ...

    RAMSAY, Andrew.
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    An imaginary tour of the ancient world undertaken by Cyrus, founder of the Persian Empire. He meets notable figures such as Pythagoras and Zoroast...

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    Travels along the Mediterranean, and parts adjacent;

    RICHARDSON, Robert.
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    Richardson was travelling physician to the Earl of Belmore, whose party spent two years in the Mediterranean, mainly in Egypt, Palestine and Syria...

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    Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825.

    HEBER, Reginald.
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    A valuable description of the culture of India in the 1820s. Heber's tour encompassed a journey through Bihar, Rohilkhand, Rajputana, and Gujarat,...

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    Researches in the highlands of Turkey;

    TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.
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    Scarce. A versatile and hardy traveller, Tozer (1829-1916) made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey, which formed the subject of this, his majo...

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