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 history of Arabia Felix or Yemen,
PLAYFAIR, Captain Robert Lambert.Original price $9,925.00 - Original price $9,925.00Original price $0.00$9,925.00$9,925.00 - $9,925.00Current price $9,925.00| /The first major history of Yemen by an British author, and one of the earliest accounts of Aden under British occupation. The work covers some 200...
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Maps of Iraq
[IRAQ].Original price $1,655.00 - Original price $1,655.00Original price $0.00$1,655.00$1,655.00 - $1,655.00Current price $1,655.00| /Maps include Baghdad and Environs, The Environs of Basrah and several road maps to Southern and Northern Iraq.Revised and enlarged edition. Folio ...
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Unexplored Syria.
BURTON, Richard Francis; TYRWHITT DRAKE, Charles F.Original price $3,309.00 - Original price $3,309.00Original price $0.00$3,309.00$3,309.00 - $3,309.00Current price $3,309.00| /Burton was Consul at Damascus from 1865-1871. During that period Tyrwhitt-Drake went to Syria as a representative of the Palestine Exploration Fun...
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How I Found Livingstone.
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price $3,309.00 - Original price $3,309.00Original price $0.00$3,309.00$3,309.00 - $3,309.00Current price $3,309.00| /'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a nineteenth-century reader with the wonder...
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The Arab of the desert.
DICKSON, H.R.P.Original price $1,456.00 - Original price $1,456.00Original price $0.00$1,456.00$1,456.00 - $1,456.00Current price $1,456.00| /Preferred edition with the first publication of the 3 maps intended for the second impression but never issued, and with the charts bound into the...
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Six months in Ascension.
GILL, Isobel Sara.Original price $378.00 - Original price $378.00Original price $0.00$378.00$378.00 - $378.00Current price $378.00| /Gill's account of her experiences on the Atlantic island of Ascension as part of an 1867 scientific expedition led by her husband, the astronomer ...
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Personal observations on Sindh;
POSTANS, Thomas.Original price $2,184.00 - Original price $2,184.00Original price $0.00$2,184.00$2,184.00 - $2,184.00Current price $2,184.00| /Mrs Postans' advance copy. Postans (1808-46) was assistant to the political agent in Sindh and Baluchistan. A comprehensive description of Sindh in...
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Seven years in South Africa:
HOLUB, Dr. EmilOriginal price $1,655.00 - Original price $1,655.00Original price $0.00$1,655.00$1,655.00 - $1,655.00Current price $1,655.00| /Holub, an Austrian, arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields. Holub gives accounts of pipe mining and their are ...
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The northern barrier of India.
DREW, Frederic.Original price $993.00 - Original price $993.00Original price $0.00$993.00$993.00 - $993.00Current price $993.00| /Drew made a nine year stay in Kashmir between 1862 and 1871, and travelled widely in the country.First edition. 8vo, xii, 336 pp., 3 Woodbury-type...
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Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.
BURTON, Sir Richard Francis.Original price $19,850.00 - Original price $19,850.00Original price $0.00$19,850.00$19,850.00 - $19,850.00Current price $19,850.00| /A fine copy in original cloth of Burton's account of his pilgrimage to Mecca.Burton was the first English Christian to enter Mecca freely as a tru...
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Bibliographie Ionienne,
LEGRAND, Emile; Hubert Pernot.Original price $298.00 - Original price $298.00Original price $0.00$298.00$298.00 - $298.00Current price $298.00| /A bibliography of works published in or about the Ionian Islands. With collation, basic description and occasional additional information on the w...
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Bligh's voyage in the Resource from Coupang to Batavia,
BLIGH, William; Owen Rutter, editor.Original price $1,655.00 - Original price $1,655.00Original price $0.00$1,655.00$1,655.00 - $1,655.00Current price $1,655.00| /A beautifully bound copy of Bligh's log of the journey from Timor to Batavia, and that of the return voyage to England after the 1789 mutiny.First...
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Euphrates Valley route to India,
ANDREW, Sir William.Original price $1,258.00 - Original price $1,258.00Original price $0.00$1,258.00$1,258.00 - $1,258.00Current price $1,258.00| /Andrews, an East Indian Railway official, had propoped a railway along Euphrates, linking Europe with the Arabian Gulf at Basra, as a direct route...
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Cabool:
BURNES, Sir Alexander.Original price $1,324.00 - Original price $1,324.00Original price $0.00$1,324.00$1,324.00 - $1,324.00Current price $1,324.00| /Account of Burnes' British commercial mission to the Court of the Emir of Kabul in 1837-38. The Mission was a failure and in 1839 Burnes re-entere...
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An account of the kingdom of Caubul,
ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart.Original price $2,382.00 - Original price $2,382.00Original price $0.00$2,382.00$2,382.00 - $2,382.00Current price $2,382.00| /the first detailed account of Afghanistan by a western observer. Elphinstone collected important information on the geography, government, languag...
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Two years in Kurdistan.
HAY, W.R.Original price $477.00 - Original price $477.00Original price $0.00$477.00$477.00 - $477.00Current price $477.00| /An important work written while Hay was serving in the Civil Administration of Mesopotamia 'always in more or less remote parts of the country'.Fi...
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Histoire des Wahabis,
[CORANCEZ, Louis Alexandre].Original price $7,940.00 - Original price $7,940.00Original price $0.00$7,940.00$7,940.00 - $7,940.00Current price $7,940.00| /A very attractive copy of he first European study of the origins and history of Wahabism.The book starts with an account of the conversion of Moha...
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Three Visits to Madagascar
ELLIS, Rev WilliamOriginal price $1,258.00 - Original price $1,258.00Original price $0.00$1,258.00$1,258.00 - $1,258.00Current price $1,258.00| /Ellis (1794-1871), was sent to Madagascar by the London Missionary Society to investigate the treatment of Christians on the island. The work cont...
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