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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A summer on the Yenesei (1914).
HAVILAND, Maud D.Original price $416.00 - Original price $416.00Original price $0.00$416.00$416.00 - $416.00Current price $416.00| /The author travelled the Yenisey as part of an expedition that set out to study tribes that lived along the banks. Her main interest was in natura...
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Turkey in Europe.
BAKER, James.Original price $320.00 - Original price $320.00Original price $0.00$320.00$320.00 - $320.00Current price $320.00| /A popular account which went through several editions in a short space of time. The author had visited Constantinople during the Crimean War and h...
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The condition of Greece in 1827 and 1828;
MILLER, Col. Jonathan P.Original price $640.00 - Original price $640.00Original price $0.00$640.00$640.00 - $640.00Current price $640.00| /Blackmer copy. 'First and apparently only edition. The map of Greece issued with this work is frequently missing, and despite the information on th...
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Report of the Committee of the Society of the Dilettanti,
SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI.Original price $448.00 - Original price $448.00Original price $0.00$448.00$448.00 - $448.00Current price $448.00| /'This report describes the activities of the Society of Dilettanti's second Ionian Mission, 1812-13, organized under the direction of William Gell...
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The Pool of Siloam.
BONFILS, Felix.Original price $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price $0.00$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00| /Albumen print (22 x 28 cm). Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original card, photographer's credit, title and number in negative.
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[Valley of Gihon, Jerusalem].
BONFILS, Felix.Original price $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price $0.00$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00| /A scenic view over the valley with a windmill on the right side and the hills of Judaean Desert in the background.The spring of Gihon considered t...
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[Tower of David enterior, Jerusalem].
BONFILS, Felix.Original price $192.00 - Original price $192.00Original price $0.00$192.00$192.00 - $192.00Current price $192.00| /The Holy Land. Albumen print. 225 x 282 mm. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original card, photographer's credit and title in neg...
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Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey,
EMORY, William H.Original price $4,799.00 - Original price $4,799.00Original price $0.00$4,799.00$4,799.00 - $4,799.00Current price $4,799.00| /Contains volumes on Botany, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles and Fish, including 75 specimen plates of cacti.First edition, senate issue; 2 vols bound in ...
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Travels in Luristan and Arabistan.
BODE, Baron Clement Augustus de.Original price $3,199.00 - Original price $3,199.00Original price $0.00$3,199.00$3,199.00 - $3,199.00Current price $3,199.00| /The 'Arabistan' in the title refers to Khuzestan in Eastern Persia. The author, a member of the Russian legation at Tehran, travelled from Tehran ...
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Journey through Asia Minor, Armenia,
KINNEIR, Sir John Macdonald.Original price $6,078.00 - Original price $6,078.00Original price $0.00$6,078.00$6,078.00 - $6,078.00Current price $6,078.00| /Scarce. Kinneir had served in the Madras infantry and was later attached to Sir John Malcolm's mission in Persia in 1808-1809. In 1813 he set out ...
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A narrative of Dr. Livingston's discoveries in south-central Africa, from 1849 to 1856.
[LIVINGSTONE, David].Original price $1,152.00 - Original price $1,152.00Original price $0.00$1,152.00$1,152.00 - $1,152.00Current price $1,152.00| /Rare. The first appearance in book form of any account of Livingstone's travels in Africa (the preface is dated January, 1857, and his Missionary ...
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Narrative of a journey to Morocco,
HODGKIN, Thomas, M.D.Original price $1,408.00 - Original price $1,408.00Original price $0.00$1,408.00$1,408.00 - $1,408.00Current price $1,408.00| /Dr. Thomas Hodgkin (1798-1866), an eminent physician was the first to identify the type of lymphoma now known as Hodgkins disease. He travelled t...
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Voyage en Arabie
TAMISIER, Maurice.Original price $1,600.00 - Original price $1,600.00Original price $0.00$1,600.00$1,600.00 - $1,600.00Current price $1,600.00| /In 1833-34 Maurice Tamisier served as a secretary to the chief medical officer in the armies sent by Muhammad Ali to suppress further uprisings in...
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The description of Greece,
PAUSANIAS.Original price $1,216.00 - Original price $1,216.00Original price $0.00$1,216.00$1,216.00 - $1,216.00Current price $1,216.00| /A scarce, well regarded translation of Pausanias, who provides us with the best guide to the Ancient Greeks and their beliefs. Translated by Thoma...
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Official programme of the grand procession
AFGHANISTAN.Original price $576.00 - Original price $576.00Original price $0.00$576.00$576.00 - $576.00Current price $576.00| /The Shahzada, Nasrullah Khan, spent several months in England deputising for his father, Emir Abdur Rahman Khan, who had intended to visit Queen V...
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Travels in Egypt and Nubia,
IRBY, Charles Leonard; James Mangles.Original price $1,920.00 - Original price $1,920.00Original price $0.00$1,920.00$1,920.00 - $1,920.00Current price $1,920.00| /The privately printed true first edition. The rare privately printed edition, preceding the trade edition by twenty-one years. The text consists of...
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Travels in the Morea.
LEAKE, William Martin.Original price $3,519.00 - Original price $3,519.00Original price $0.00$3,519.00$3,519.00 - $3,519.00Current price $3,519.00| /'A fascinating work, full of interesting detail, as are all Leake's works. Particular attention is paid to Mycenae and Tiryns, and the plates incl...
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Constantinople Ancient and Modern,
DALLAWAY, James.Original price $1,280.00 - Original price $1,280.00Original price $0.00$1,280.00$1,280.00 - $1,280.00Current price $1,280.00| /Dallaway spent 18 months as chaplain with Liston's embassy to the Porte (1794-6). He travelled to Constantinople overland with Liston's entourage,...
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Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria,
WITTMAN, William.Original price $4,479.00 - Original price $4,479.00Original price $0.00$4,479.00$4,479.00 - $4,479.00Current price $4,479.00| /Wittman was a member of the British military mission which joined the Turkish forces at Constantinople in 1799 and travelled overland to Egypt to ...
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