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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Ismailia:
BAKER, Samuel White.Original price $1,918.00 - Original price $1,918.00Original price $0.00$1,918.00$1,918.00 - $1,918.00Current price $1,918.00| /A finely bound copy of Baker's Ismailia.In 1869, Baker, one of the greatest explorers of Africa, was appointed by the Khedive Isma'il to a four-ye...
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East African Campaign proclamation and notices].
[ETHIOPIA.Original price $1,279.00 - Original price $1,279.00Original price $0.00$1,279.00$1,279.00 - $1,279.00Current price $1,279.00| /A rare series of legal notices published during WW II by the British Military, setting out laws to be observed in Ethiopia after the British and t...
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Views of Trinadad
CAZABON, Michael John.Original price $47,930.00 - Original price $47,930.00Original price $0.00$47,930.00$47,930.00 - $47,930.00Current price $47,930.00| /The first edition of 'possibly the finest set of engravings that has ever been produced of the West Indes' (Maclean).Cazabon was born on 20th Sept...
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Tractato dele più maravigliose cose e più notabile che si trovino in le parte del mondo
MANDEVILLE, Sir John.Original price $23,646.00 - Original price $23,646.00Original price $0.00$23,646.00$23,646.00 - $23,646.00Current price $23,646.00| /The first travel book best-seller. Rare 16th-century Italian edition of the world's first best-selling travel book. Although largely fictitious, th...
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The Congo
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price $3,196.00 - Original price $3,196.00Original price $0.00$3,196.00$3,196.00 - $3,196.00Current price $3,196.00| /First edition of Stanley's famous account of his travels in the Congo, prompted by a meeting with King Leopold of the Belgians in 1879. In 1879 St...
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Gun running and the North-West Frontier.
KEPPEL, Arnold.Original price $480.00 - Original price $480.00Original price $0.00$480.00$480.00 - $480.00Current price $480.00| /Keppel, a special correspondent of The Times, was on the North-West frontier and covered the activity of the Mekran Field force which was set up t...
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Triumphant Pilgrimage.
RUTTER, Owen.Original price $320.00 - Original price $320.00Original price $0.00$320.00$320.00 - $320.00Current price $320.00| /Rutter, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, travelled extensively in Arabia visiting the Holy cities including Mecca.First edition. 8vo, 2...
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Bibliographia Geographica Palaestinae.
TOBLER, Titus.Original price $58.00 - Original price $58.00Original price $0.00$58.00$58.00 - $58.00Current price $58.00| /A bibliography of travels to the Holy Land, covering books in all languages totalling about 2,500 works on Palestine and the Near East, originally...
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Sketches of China and the Chinese.
BORGET, Auguste.Original price $28,758.00 - Original price $28,758.00Original price $0.00$28,758.00$28,758.00 - $28,758.00Current price $28,758.00| /Fine lithographic views of China. Borget's fine lithographic views of China, including five of Hong-Kong, and others relating to Macao and Canton. ...
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An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China [...]
STAUNTON, Sir George Leonard.Original price $15,977.00 - Original price $15,977.00Original price $0.00$15,977.00$15,977.00 - $15,977.00Current price $15,977.00| /The first British embassy to China. The most celebrated and finely illustrated account of the first British embassy to China, which was to lead to ...
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The last of the Arctic voyages;
BELCHER, Sir Edward.Original price $4,793.00 - Original price $4,793.00Original price $0.00$4,793.00$4,793.00 - $4,793.00Current price $4,793.00| /Belcher's voyage was the last officially sent in search of Sir John Franklin, who disappeared during an Arctic expedition in 1845. Belcher, in his...
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Memoirs of the Baron de Tott,
TOTT, Baron de.Original price $1,215.00 - Original price $1,215.00Original price $0.00$1,215.00$1,215.00 - $1,215.00Current price $1,215.00| /An important work. Baron de Tott (1733-1793) went to Constantinople in 1755 and stayed until 1763, at first with his father and then with de Verge...
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Emin Pasha
MOUNTENEY-JEPHSON A[rthur] J[ermy].Original price $831.00 - Original price $831.00Original price $0.00$831.00$831.00 - $831.00Current price $831.00| /Mounteney-Jephson accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as govern...
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Tibet Past & Present.
BELL, Sir Charles.Original price $448.00 - Original price $448.00Original price $0.00$448.00$448.00 - $448.00Current price $448.00| /Charles Bell entered Lhasa in 1920 as the first European diplomat. The book gives a history of Tibet from the fifteenth century, its land and peop...
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China proper.
[GEOGRAPHICAL HANDBOOK SERIES].Original price $959.00 - Original price $959.00Original price $0.00$959.00$959.00 - $959.00Current price $959.00| /Scarce complete set of the secret reports on China compiled for Naval Intelligence.Comprises sections on physical geography, history, peoples, mod...
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Reconnoitring Central Asia.
MARVIN, Charles.Original price $1,119.00 - Original price $1,119.00Original price $0.00$1,119.00$1,119.00 - $1,119.00Current price $1,119.00| /Marvin's popular account of some of the more famous explorers and explorations of Central Asia in the 1860s-1880s such as Vambery, Burnaby, MacGre...
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Illustrations of China and its People.
THOMSON, John.Original price $44,735.00 - Original price $44,735.00Original price $0.00$44,735.00$44,735.00 - $44,735.00Current price $44,735.00| /Thomson's most significant work. Thomson's most significant work, made as he travelled through China between 1868 and 1872.Richard Ovenden has argu...
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After Everest.
TENZING, Norgay Sherpa; BARNES, MalcolmOriginal price $1,087.00 - Original price $1,087.00Original price $0.00$1,087.00$1,087.00 - $1,087.00Current price $1,087.00| /Signed by Tenzing. This volume contains tales of Norgay Tenzing's various travels and climbs following his historic ascent of Everest with Sir Edmu...
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Arabian Oil Ventures.
PHILBY, Harry St. John B.Original price $448.00 - Original price $448.00Original price $0.00$448.00$448.00 - $448.00Current price $448.00| /Philby's scarce final book. A history of the oil industry in Arabia from the end of WWI, by the renowned Arabist.First edition, 8vo, 134pp., a por...
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The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen
CARTER, Howard; MACE, A.C.Original price $5,752.00 - Original price $5,752.00Original price $0.00$5,752.00$5,752.00 - $5,752.00Current price $5,752.00| /The most famous archaeological discovery of the twentieth century. First edition of the three-volume Tut-Ankh-Amen, Howard Carter's account of the ...
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A Polar reconnaissance.
MARKHAM, Albert Hastings.Original price $608.00 - Original price $608.00Original price $0.00$608.00$608.00 - $608.00Current price $608.00| /Markham's voyage to the Barents Sea during the navigable season in order to ascertain the best route for future Polar discovery. Markham's view th...
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