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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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    Travels in Mesopotamia.

    BUCKINGHAM, James Silk.
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    The second part of Buckingham's overland journey to India from Egypt in 1816-17.First octavo edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xx, [ii], 479; vi, [ii], 53...

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    Voyage of the Prince Albert

    SNOW, William Parker.
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    Parker Snow (1817-1895), an eccentric English explorer, was working as a writer in New York when he claimed to have had a paranormal vision of the...

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    The possibility of approaching the North Pole asserted.

    BARRINGTON, Daines; BEAUFOY, Colonel.
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    This volume contains papers relating to an expedition under the command of Captain Phipps commissioned by the Government of the day. These papers ...

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    Travels through the Rhætian Alps,

    ALBANIS BEAUMONT, Jean François.
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    'Jean François Albanis Beaumont, (1755–1812), engraver and landscape painter, may have been a son of, or related to, the Piedmontese artist Claudi...

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    Riacotta in the Baramahal.

    SALT, Henry.
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    Plate XII from Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt, original hand-coloured aquatints, 495 x ...

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    Natal en Nieuw-Gelderland en de vooruitzigten der kolonisatie Aldaa.

    ENTE, W. K.
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    Scarce. Natal Colony, Durban, and the Umgeni and Umvoti Rivers.First edition. 8vo., [viii], 40 pp., original tan printed wrappers, spine defective...

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    Dessins et peintures d'Asie.

    IACOVLEFF, Alexandre [YAKOVLEV, Aleksandr].
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    Beiruit to Beijing - the Citroen Central Asia Expedition. Finely produced portfolio of illustrations by the official artist of the Citroen Central ...

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    Expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile,

    WERNE, Ferdinand.
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    Werne (1822-1874), a German adventurer, took part in the second European exploratory mission to discover the source of the White Nile, under the l...

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    Journal of Mr. Anthony N. Groves, missionary,

    GROVES, Anthony N.
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    The first Protestant mission to Arabic-speaking Muslims. Rare. Anthony Norris Groves (1795-1853), travelled with his family to Baghdad in 1829 wher...

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    The recent operations of the British Forces

    BAKER, Rev. Thomas Turner.
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    Rev. Baker gives an account of the opening of the second Anglo-Burmese War, when Rangoon was occupied by the British shortly after they had seized...

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    Voyage de la Propontide et du Pont-Euxin;

    LECHEVALIER, J.B.
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    In 1787, after a sojourn at Constantinople in the service of Choiseul-Gouffier, Le Chevalier accompanied Alexander Ipsilanti, the Hospodar (ruler)...

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    Scenes and occurences

    PHILLIPS, Thomas.
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    Scarce. An account of a three month stay in South Africa in 1825. Much information on the native people and Graham's Town.First edition. 8vo, xvi,...

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    The heart of Africa

    SCHWEINFURTH, Georg.
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    "At the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, Schweinfurth specialized in geology and botany. An 1862 specimen-collecting trip up the Nile River ...

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    De Zieke Reiziger; or, Rambles in Java and the straits in 1852. By a Bengal civilian.

    [KINLOCH, Charles Walter].
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    Born in London in 1810, Kinloch joined the Indian Civil Service, becoming a judge in Bengal. He wrote several books including De Zieke Reiziger an...

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    The modern Syrians;

    [PATON, Andrew Archibald].
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    A 'very interesting work' (Blackmer), containing long accounts of Beirut, Damascus and Aleppo, as well as detailed accounts of the Druses. A caree...

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    Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection, illustrative of the impolicy of slavery.

    [SLAVERY]. [CROPPER, James].
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    Rare slavery chart. Scarce colour-coded map concerning the sugar trade and its link to slavery.The section shaded yellow is the appropriate climate...

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    Observations upon the windward coast of Africa,

    CORRY, Joseph.
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    Illustrated with fine hand-coloured plates. Scarce. 'An early eyewitness description of the territories of the western coast of Africa promoting gr...

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    Missionary travels and researches in South Africa;

    LIVINGSTONE, David.
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    "Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone's travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lak...

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    Narrative of the wreck of the 'Favorite'

    NUNN, John.
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    'Nunn had joined the crew of the Royal Sovereign on a sealing voyage, which after being chased by pirates down the West African coast arrived at K...

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