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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. 

  • Memoirs relating To European and Asiatic Turkey; edited from manuscript journals.

    WALPOLE, Robert.
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    With four-sheet panorama of Athens. A handsomely bound set of Walpole's travels between 1803 and 1808 to which are added accounts by other travelle...

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  • A Classical and topographical tour

    DODWELL, Edward.
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    Dodwell made two journeys to Greece, one in company with Sir William Gell touring the Ionian Islands and the Troad. Later with the Italian Simone ...

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  • Observations made on a tour from Bengal to Persia

    FRANCKLIN, William
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    Originally published in Calcutta. 'The author was an officer of the Bengal Establishment sent to Shiraz for an eight months assignment. An importa...

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  • Travels in Luristan and Arabistan.

    BODE, Baron Clement Augustus de.
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    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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  • Panorama of Athens.

    BRACEBRIDGE, Selina.
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    The rare second panorama. A rare example, never bound, with wide margins.A fine panoramic view, entirely different from Mrs. Bracebridge's 1836 pan...

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  • Four Birds-eye views of the London Docks.

    DANIELL, William.
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    A fine collection of views of the London docks by William Daniell, published between 1802 and 1808 at £2 12s 6d each. The views show the new docks...

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  • The present state of Tangier...

    PHILIPS, George.
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    Scarce, with only a handful of copies appearing at auction. George Philips (?1599-1696), was employed as secretary to George O'Brien, Second Earl ...

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  • An account of the present war

    CASTLEMAINE, Roger Palmer, Earl of.
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    Scarce. Castlemaine was asked by Charles II to keep him informed of events in Europe whilst making a tour. Castelmaine reported to the King by let...

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  • Letters sur la Grece,

    CASTELLAN, Antoine Laurent.
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    Castellan went out to the Levant as a draughtsman in 1796 with a French engineering mission led by Pierre Ferregau, who hoped to be awarded a cont...

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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 enco...

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  • British East Africa

    McDERMOTT, P.L.
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    Important history of this Royal Charter Company including much on relations with Zanzibar and its Sultan.First edition. 8vo, xvi, 382 pp., folding...

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  • [Ethiopic] Sive, Jobi Ludolfi I.C. Lexicon Æthiopico-Latinum,

    LUDOLF, Hiob.
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    The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...

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  • De Abassinorum rebus, deque Aethiopiae Patriarchis

    GODINHO, Nicolao.
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    An important account of Ethiopia written by a Portuguese Jesuit, primarily relating to an account of Ethiopia in the second half of the sixteenth ...

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  • A General View of London and Westminster.

    BUCK, Samuel and Nathaniel.
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    The most Important Panorama of London of its period. The magnificent grand panorama of London.Samuel Buck and his brother Nathaniel are among the f...

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  • Travels in Sicily Greece and Albania.

    HUGHES, The Rev. Thomas Smart.
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    Hughes travelled in the Mediterranean and Greece in 1813-14 as tutor to Richard Townley Parker. They visited Spain, Italy, Sicily, Greece and Alba...

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  • Account of the Russian discoveries between Asia and America;

    COXE, William.
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    Coxe, an English priest and historian, at one time based in St. Petersburg, endeavoured to collect the journals of the several voyages relating to...

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  • Arctic Expedition, 1875-6.

    [BRITISH ARCTIC EXPEDITION]
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    One of the most valuable sources for the history of exploration in northern Canada.The Nares expedition, so called after its commander George Nare...

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  • Seven years' travel in Central America,

    FROEBEL, Julius.
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    Froebel (1805 –1893) was a German geologist and mineralogist, and journalist. He emigrated to the United States, where he became editor of a Germa...

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  • Manuscript travel diary, 1913-23.

    [ABYSSINIA].
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    An exciting and detailed diary recording the exploits of an unknown employee at the Bank of Abyssinia and his travel companion, the British army o...

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