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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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  • A narrative of the expedition sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River Niger, in 1841.

    ALLEN, William; THOMSON, T.R.H.
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    A fine copy of Allen's River Niger expedition in the preferred deluxe binding.The British Niger Expedition of 1841 was commissioned by the British...

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  • A Visit to Abyssinia.

    WINSTANLEY, William.
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    Winstanley was a British officer of the Queen's Own Hussars who entered Ethiopia from the west around 1880. Travelling from the frontier market to...

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    Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles.

    MELLY, George.
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    Inscribed presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to 'Albert Hutton Esq., from his affectionate friend, G Melly' on the upper...

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    Incidents on a journey through Nubia to Darfoor.

    ENSOR, F. Sidney.
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    Ensor was engaged in the survey of Wady Milkh or the Inalienable Valley for the proposed line of a railway to Darfoor. Since the reign of Achmat B...

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    Up the Niger.

    MOCKLER-FERRYMAN, Augustus Ferryman.
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    Mockler-Ferryman's account of the expedition led by Major MacDonald in 1889 to investigate complaints about the Royal Nigerian Company. Includes a...

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    The Northern Goldfields Diaries of Thomas Baines.

    WALLIS, J. P. R. (ed.)
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    3 volumes, large octavo. Original red cloth, spines lettered in gilt, armorial illustrations to front boards in gilt.

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    Travels in Africa.

    JUNKER, Wilhelm.
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    Junker charted the course of the Congo and its tributaries during his decade in Central Africa. Born of German parents in Moscow, he was influence...

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    Royal Geographical Society. Stanley reception meeting

    [STANLEY, Henry Morton].
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    Rare and attractive commemorative printing.Trifold (19 x 9.3 cm approx) extending to 19 x 27 cm., engraved title, partly coloured map, a fine exam...

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    Anglo-Burmese hand-book,

    CHASE, Lieut. Dormer Augustus.
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    Chase (1823-1860) was stationed in Burma from 1847 until his death in 1860. He joined the 46th Bengal Native Infantry in India in March 1842, arr...

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    Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West,

    RUNDALL, Thomas.
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    Hakluyt Society First Series, No. 5.Accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purch...

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    Scandinavian adventures,

    LLOYD, L.
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    Includes much on bear hunting, trapping, and natural history, as well as having some important content on salmon fishing. Published in the same y...

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    Travels to the seat of war in the East,

    ALEXANDER, Captain James Edward.
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    Having served with the East India Company, Alexander (1803-1885) was aide-de-camp to Colonel Kinneir, British envoy to Persia, and was present wit...

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    Travels in the Free States of Central America:

    SCHERZER, Carl.
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    A frank account of conditions in the region. In addition to the customary account of the peoples, customs, and natural history of the area, the au...

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    The Skipper in Arctic Seas.

    CLUTTERBUCK, Walter.
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    Scarce account of a party of amateurs sending out on an expedition in the Spitzbergen area. Hunting and dining seem to be their major concerns in ...

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    Description historique et géographique de l'Inde.

    BERNOUILLI, Jean.
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    Important assembly of three key texts on India. The first volume contains the geography of Hindustan by the Portuguese Jesuit missionary, Joseph T...

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    A manual of the district of Cuddapah

    GRIBBLE, James Dunning Baker.
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    Scarce. COPAC lists BL, Edinburgh University, and SOAS only.A thorough survey of the district.First edition. 8vo, xi, 369 pp., errata slip, mounte...

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    Gleanings, pictorial and antiquarian, on the Overland Route.

    BARTLETT, W.H.
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    Fine publisher's richly gilt decorative cloth binding. One of the foremost topographical illustrators of the period, Bartlett (1809-1854) travelled...

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    Journal of an embassy from the Governor-General of India to the court of Ava

    CRAWFURD, John.
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    Crawfurd was sent on an envoy mission to Burma in 1826, by Hastings's successor Lord Amherst, in the aftermath of the First Anglo-Burmese War. It ...

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  • A True Description of three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China,

    DE VEER, Gerrit.
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    De Veer (1570-1598), was a Dutch officer on Willem Barentsz' second and third voyages of 1595 and 1596 respectively, in search of the Northeast Pa...

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