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Allen, Charles.
A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of India.
Abacus. Plates, index, 254pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Arnold, Guy.
Longhouse and Jungle: An expedition to Sarawak.
Chatto and Windus 1959 Frontis., plates, 205pp.,
ex-lib. copy with usual stamps/marks, some pp. stained else good reading copy. 3.50
Asher, Michael.
Impossible: Two Against the Sahara.
Viking. 850g. Plates, index, 301pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Bell, Gertrude.
The Desert and the Sown.
Virago Travellers rep. 500g. Plates, index, 347pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Bergman, Sten.
Through Primitive New Guinea.
Trans. from the Swedish by Maurice Michael.
Hale 1957 Frontis., plates, index, 191pp., good in d/w. 7.00
Bernstein, Jeremy.
In the Himalayas: Journeys Through Nepal, Tibet and Bhutan.
Swan Hill Press. Plates, biblio., index, 341pp., card covers, good. 7.00
Bird, Isabella.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.
Virago Travellers 1986 rep. New intro. by Pat Barr.
Plates, 296pp., map, card covers, good. 5.00
Bird, Isabella.
Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan II.
Virago Travellers 1989 New intro. by Shusha Guppy. Apeendices, 399pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 6.00
Blixen, Karen.
Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass.
Penguin 1984 rep. 351pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Bonington, Chris.
The Next Horizon.
Gollancz. Plates, index, 304pp., card covers, sl. marked, lacks tp. else good reading copy. 2.00
Bonington, Chris.
Quest for Adventure.
BCA 1982 Large 8vo. Plates, maps, index, 448pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Bonington, Chris.
Quest for Adventure.
BCA 1982 Plates, maps, illus., chronology,
biblio., index, 639pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Bonington, Chris.
South West Face.
Penguin 1979 rep. Plates, index, 368pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Botting, Douglas.
One Chilly Siberian Morning.
Hodder and Stoughton 1965 Plates, 192pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Bouvier, Nicolas.
The Japanese Chronicles.
Trans. by Anne Dickerson.
Polygon. Plates, 222pp., card covers, a bit creased else good. 3.50
Bowman, W.E.
The Ascent of Rum Doodle.
Arena 1989 Illus., 141pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Bradford, Tim.
Is Shane MacGowan Still Alive: Travels in Irishry.
Flamingo. Illus., index, 316pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 3.50
Brenan, Gerald.
South from Granada.
Penguin 1963 250g. 320pp., card covers, sl. creased/marked else good. 3.00
Bryson, Bill.
The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America.
Abacus 1989 rep. 293pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Bryson, Bill.
Notes from a Small Island.
Black Swan. 351pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Bryson, Bill.
A Walk in the Woods.
Black Swan. Rep. Illus., 349pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Burton, Richard F.
First Footsteps in East Africa.
Dent EML rep. 300g. 363pp., good. 5.00
Burton, Richard F.
Goa, and the Blue Mountains.
Intro. by Dane Kennedy.
Univ. of California Press. Rep. Paperback. 368pp. Good. 8.00
Burton, Richard F.
Dover 1987 Unabridged reprint of vols. VI and VII of 'The Memorial Edition of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton,' 1894. Colour plates reproduced in black and white. Two volumes bound as one. 209pp., index, 276pp., card covers, good. 10.00
Burton, Sir Richard F.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah.
Dover Pub. c. 1970 Volume 1. Unabridged reprint of the 1893 Memorial edition. 436pp., card covers, some evidence of damp staining to rear pages, sp. sl. creased, else good reading copy. 5.00
Burton, Richard F.
The Lake Regions of Central Africa.
Dover rep. 700g. Plates, index, 572pp., card covers, good. 10.00
Burton, Sir Richard F.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah.
Dover Pub. c. 1970 Volume 2. Unabridged reprint of the 1893 Memorial edition. 436pp., card covers, good. 10.00
Cameron, Roderick.
The Golden Haze: With Captain Cook in the South Pacific.
RU. 1964 Plates, illus., 283pp., good in d/w. 4.00
Campbell, Ffyona.
On foot through Africa.
Orion rep. Plates, appendix, 349pp., good in d/w. 6.00
Carrighar, Sally.
Moonlight at Midday.
Michael Joseph 1959
Plates, index, 317pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Chapman, Olive Murray.
Across Iceland: The Land of Frost and Fire.
John Lane 1934 rep. 600g. Nice coloured plates after watercolours by the author, black and white photographic plates, appendix, index, 193pp., lacks ffep., good. 8.00
Chatwin, Bruce.
The Songlines.
Picador. 325pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Che Guevara, Ernesto.
The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey Around South America.
Trans. by Ann Wright.
Fourth Estate. 155pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Chichester, Francis.
The Lonely Sea and the Sky.
Pan 1967 rep. Plates, index, 398pp., card covers,
sl. marked else good. 3.50
Chichester, Francis.
The Lonely Sea and the Sky.
Hodder and Stoughton 1964 rep. Plates, index, 352pp., good in d/w. 7.00
Cloete, Stuart.
The African Giant: The Story of a Journey.
Collins 1956 Photographs and maps by Rehna Cloete,
index, 447pp., sl. marked else good in d/w. 5.00
Cole, Michael.
Journey to the Fourth World: The Joint Services Expedition to Nepal.
Lion 1981 Plates, appendix, 220pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 2.00
Collins, Matthew.
Matthew's Travels.
Ashford Buchan and Enright. 191pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Cowell, Adrian.
The Tribe that Hides from Man.
Pimlico. Plates, appendices, 265pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Davies, Tom.
Wild Skies and Celtic Paths.
Triangle Books rep. 200g. 121pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Davis, W.E.
Congo Doctor.
Hale 1941 rep. 650g. Plates, 286pp., covers dull, sl. loose, inscr., else good. 5.00
Descola, Philippe.
The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle.
Trans. from the French by Janet Lloyd.
Flamingo. 450g. Plates, index, 458pp., card covers, good. 4.50
di Turno, Sadio Garavini.
Diamond River.
Trans. from the Italian by Peter Green.
Hamish Hamilton 1963 Frontis., 208pp., sl. loose else good. 3.50
Diski, Jenny.
Skating to Antarctica.
Granta. 250pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Dodwell, Christina.
Madagascar Travels.
Sceptre. 200g. 205pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Dolinger, Jane.
Inca Gold.
Hale 1967 Plates, 189pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Ellis, William S.
The Majestic Rocky Mountains.
National Geographic Society 1974 Large 8vo. Plates, index, 199pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Fallowell, Duncan.
To Noto: Or London to Sicily in a Ford.
Bloomsbury 1991 rep. Index, 305pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Farago, Ladislas.
Abyssinia on the Eve.
Putnam 1935 rep. Frontis., plates, index, 286pp., sp. faded, some wear to sp. else good. 8.00
Farson, Negley.
Behind God's Back.
Zenith 1983 New foreword by Colin Wilson, plates, 400pp., card covers, weak point to sp. else good. 3.00
Fermor, Patrick Leigh.
A Time of Gifts.
RU 1978 400g. Index, 291pp., good in d/w. 3.00
Fleming, Fergus.
Killing the Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps.
Granta Books. Plates, sources, index, 398pp., card covers, good. 6.00
Fiennes, Ranulph.
Mind over Matter: The Epic Crossing of the Antarctic Continent.
Mandarin. 250g. Plates, index, 326pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Firsoff, V.A.
The Tatra Mountains.
Lindsay Drummond c. 1940 Plates, 127pp., good. 5.00
Flornoy, Bertrand.
Jivaro: Among the Head-shrinkers of the Amazon.
Elek 1953 Plates, index, 224pp., good in dull d/w. 7.00
Ford, Corey.
Where the Sea Breaks Its Back: The Epic Story of a Pioneer Naturalist and the Discovery of Alaska.
Gollancz 1967 Biblio., 206pp., maps on ep's. Good in d/w. 6.00
Fuchs, Sir Vivian; Hillary, Sir Edmund.
The Crossing of Antartica.
Cassell 1958 First edition. 800g. Plates, index, 337pp., good in d/w. 7.00
Godwin, Peter.
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa.
Picador. 350g. 418pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Green, Lawrence G.
The Coast of Treasure.
Cape Town: Timmins 1973 rep. Plates, index, 269pp., good. 8.00
Habe, France.
The Postojna Caves and other tourist caves in Slovenia.
Postojna 1981 Biblio., plates, map, card covers, good. 2.50
Hanbury-Tenison, Robin.
White Horses Over France: From the Camargue to Cornwall.
Granada 1985 500g. Plates, index, 134pp., good in d/w. 4.00
Hardy, Justine.
The Ochre Border: A Journey Through the Tibetan Frontierlands.
Constable. 500g. Plates, biblio., 191pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 5.00
Herbert, Marie.
The Snow People: Life Among the Polar Eskimos.
Pan 1976 Plates, 252pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 2.00
Heyerdahl, Thor.
Fatu-Hiva: Back to Nature.
Penguin 1976 Plates, 302pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Heyerdahl, Thor.
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By raft across the South Seas.
Trans. by R.H. Lyon.
Allen and Unwin 1950 rep. Frontis., plates, index, 235pp., good in torn, ragged d/w. 4.00
Heyerdahl, Thor.
The RA Expeditions.
Penguin 1973 rep. Plates, index, 372pp., card covers, vg. 3.50
Hodson, Peregrine.
Under a Sickle Moon: A Journey Through Afghanistan.
Hutchinson 1986 Plates, index, 226pp., good in d/w. 7.00
Holt, Peter.
In Clive's Footsteps.
Century Travellers.
Arrow ed. Plates, index, 209pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Illingworth, Frank. Highway to the North.
Benn 1955 600g. Plates, map, index, 293pp., covers sl. marked else good. 8.00
Irwin, George.
Samoa: A Teacher's Tale.
Cassell 1965 2nd. ed. Plates, 181pp., good in d/w. 4.00
Jamie, Kathleen.
The Golden Peak: Travels in Northern Pakistan.
Virago P. rep. 180pp., card covers, rear sl. creased else good. 3.50
Johnson, T. Broadwood.
Tramps Round the Mountain of the Moon and through the Back Gate of the Congo State.
T. Fisher Unwin 1912 rep. 650g. Frontis., plates, index, 316pp., dec. green cloth, sl. worn and rubbed/marked, sp. frayed; good reading copy. 10.00
Joris, Lieve.
Mali Blues: Travelling to an African Beat.
Trans. by Sam Garrett.
Lonely Planet Pub. Glossary, 291pp., card covers, good. 3.00
Pitt-Kethley, Fiona.
Journeys to the Underworld.
Abacus 1989 226pp., card covers, vg. 3.50
Kingsley, Mary.
Travels in West Africa.
Abridged and intro. by Elspeth Huxley.
Everyman rep. 250g. 270pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy. 3.50
Kopp, Hans.
Himalaya Shuttlecock. Trans. from the German by H.C. Stevens.
The Adventurers Club nd. c. 1950
Frontis., plates, 191pp., good in torn d/w. 5.00
Levi, Peter.
The Light Garden of the Angel King: Journeys in Afghanistan.
Collins 1972 550g. Plates, index, 287pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Maybury-Lewis, David.
The Savage and the Innocent: A twentieth century expedition among the legendary tribes of Brazil.
Evans Bros. 1965 Plates, index, 270pp., good in d/w. 6.00
McCrae, Alister. (Comp.)
Tales of Burma.
Paisley: Paton 1981 Plates, 168pp., card covers, good. Presentation copy. 5.00
McKee, Alexander.
Death Raft: The Human Drama of the Medusa Shipwreck.
RU. 1976 Plates, index, 288pp., good. 4.00
McKinlay, William Laird.
Karluk: A Great Untold Story of Arctic Rxploration.
Weidenfeld and Nicolson rep. 145mm. by 225mm., 500g. Index, 166pp., vg. in d/w. 6.50
Moitessier, Bernard.
The Long Way.
Granada 1983 Plates, appendix, glossary, 252pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Moorhouse, Geoffrey.
Apples in the Snow: A Journey to Samarkand.
Sceptre Glossary, 189pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 3.00
Morley, John David.
Pictures from the Water Trade: An Englishman in Japan.
Flamingo 1985 Glossary, 259pp., card covers, good. 4.50
Murphy, Dervla.
Eight Feet in the Andes: Travels with a Mule from Cajamarca to Cuzco.
Flamingo. Index, 302pp., card covers, sl. creased at corner
and sp. else good. 3.00
Murphy, Dervla.
Eight Feet in the Andes.
John Murray 1984 rep. 550g. Plates, index, 274pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good reading copy in d/w. 4.00
Murphy, Dervla.
Ireland. Photographs by Klaus Francke.
Orbis 1985 Large 8vo. 208pp., good in torn d/w. 6.00
Murphy, Dervla.
On a Shoestring to Coorg: An Experience of Southern India.
Flamingo. 250g. Index, 273pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Murray, W.H.
The Story of Everest.
Dent 1954 rev. ed. rep. Maps, diagrams, plates, index, 230pp., a good, bright copy in sl. torn d/w. 12.00
Naydler, Merton.
Cook on a Cool Cat.
Temple Press 1967 Plates, appendices, maps, 206pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Newby, Eric.
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.
Pan 1974 rep. Pref. by Evelyn Waugh.
Plates, maps, 247pp., card covers, good. 2.50
Newby, Eric.
A Traveller's Life.
Picador 1983 Plates, 302pp., card covers, sl. marked else good. 3.50
Newby, Eric.
What the Traveller Saw.
Flamingo. 300g. Plates, index, 205pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Noble, Christina.
Over the High Passes: A Year in the Hinalayas with the migratory Gaddi Shepherds.
Fontana 1988 Plates, glossary, index, 190pp., card covers, good. 3.00
O'Rourke, P.J.
Holidays in Hell.
Picador 1989 288pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Paris, Erna.
The Garden and the Gun: A Journey inside Israel.
Toronto: Lester and Orpen Dennys 1988 Biblio., 292pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Pascoe, John.
Land Uplifted High.
Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs 1961 rep. Frontis., plates, maps, index, 231pp., covers sl. blotched else good in torn d/w. 5.00
Peissel, Michel.
Zanskar: The Hidden Kingdom.
Collins 1979 Plates, index, 205pp., inscr. and mark to ffep. else good in d/w. 6.00
Pryde, Duncan.
Nunga: Ten Years of Eskino Life.
MacGibbon and Kee 1971 450g. Plates, 285pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Ridgeway, John and Marie Christine.
Round the World with Ridgeway.
Heinemann 1978 Plates, index, 317pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Ridgeway, John; Blyth, Chay.
A Fighting Chance.
Pan 1968 Plates, appendix, 220pp., card covers, sl. creased else good. 2.50
Ring, Jim.
How the English made the Alps.
John Murray. 850g. Plates, index, 287pp., good in d/w. 7.00
Robinson, Jane. (Sel.)
Unsuitable for Ladies: An Anthology of Women Travellers.
Oxford UP. 463pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Russell, Alexander.
Aristocrats of the South Seas.
Hale 1961 Plates, index, 190pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Russell, Mary.
The Blessings of a Good, Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their World.
Flamingo. Plates, index, 239pp., card covers, good. 4.00
Russell, Mary.
The Blessings of a Good, Thick Skirt: Women Travellers and Their World.
Collins 1988 Plates, index, 239pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Sacks, Oliver.
The Island of the Colour-blind and Cycad Island.
Picador Index, 360pp., card covers, inscr., else good. 4.00
Selby, Bettina.
Pilgrim's Road: A Journey to Santiago de Compostela.
Little Brown and Co. 212pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Seth, Vikram.
From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet.
Chatto and Windus 1985 Plates, 178pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 5.00
Shand, Mark.
Queen of the Elephants.
Vintage. Plates, biblio., 193pp., card covers, rear cover torn else good. 2.50
Shankland, Peter.
Byron of the Wager.
Collins 1975 600g. Plates, 288pp., good in torn d/w. 5.00
Shepherd, Naomi.
The Zealous Intruders: The Western Rediscovery of Palestine.
Collins 1987 Plates, biblio., index, 282pp., good in d/w. 10.00
Shewan, Andrew.
The Great Days of Sail: Some reminiscences of a Tea-clipper Captain.
Conway Maritime Press 1973 2nd. ed. Intro. by David MacGregor. Plates, index, 240pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good working copy in lib. style binding. 5.00
Shipton, Eric.
Tierra del Fuego: the Fatal Lodestone.
RU. 1973 Plates, index, 175pp., good in d/w. 3.50
Shurman, Henry.
Savage Pilgrims: On the Road to Santa Fe.
HarperCollins. 600g. 226pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Shuttleworth, Charles.
Hutan Rimba: Safais in the Malayan Jungle.
Singapore 1963 350g. 167pp., inscr. else good in d/w. 5.00
Slocum, Captain Joshua.
Sailing Alone Around the World; and Voyage of the Liberdade.
RU and Rupert Hart-Davis 1949 Intro. by Arthur Ransome. Frontis., illus., 384pp., maps, inscr., else good. 5.00
Mackintosh-Smith, Tim.
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah.
John Murray. Illus., index, 349pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 5.00
Smith, Anthony.
Blind White Fish in Persia.
RU. 1954 Plates, 231pp., good in d/w. 4.00
Smith, Anthony.
Throw Out Two Hands.
Allen and Unwin 1963 rep. Plates, appendix, 272pp., good in torn d/w. 5.00
Snailham, Richard.
A Giant Among Rivers: The Story of the Zaire River Expedition 1974-75.
RU 1977 500g. Plates, biblio., index, 294pp., good in d/w. 3.50
Tasker, Joe.
Savage Arena.
Methuen 1987 Plates, index, 270pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Hanbury-Tenison, Robin.
Fragile Eden: A Ride Through New Zealand. Century Travellers. Arrow 1990 rep. Plates, index, 236pp., card covers, sp. creased else good. 2.50
Terzani, Tiziano.
A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East.
HarperCollins. Index, 375pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., else good in d/w. 3.50
Thesiger, Wilfrid.
My Kenya Days.
HarperCollins. 800g. Plates, index, 224pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps, lacks ffep., sl. marked else good reading copy in d/w. 7.00
Thubron, Colin.
Behind the Wall: A Journey through China.
Penguin 1988 Index, 306pp., card covers, good. 3.50
Thubron, Colin.
In Siberia.
Penguin. Index, 286pp., card covers, good. 5.00
Tonkin, Thelma.
Ethiopia with Love.
Hodder and Stoughton 1972 Illus., biblio., 198pp., one ex-lib. stamp on verso of tp. else good in d/w. 5.00
Treves, Sir Frederick.
The Cradle of the Deep: An Account of a Voyage to the West Indies.
Smith Elder 1910 Popular ed. 750g. Plates, map, index, 378pp., some cracking at joints, inscr., else good. 10.00
Tweedsmuir, Lord.
Hudson's Bay Trader.
Hale 1978 2nd. ed. rep. Frontis., plates, 188pp., ffep. rubbed at bottom, tp. sl. creased else good in d/w. 5.00
Tyndall, John.
The Glaciers of the Alps & Mountaineering in 1861.
Dent EML 1906 350g. 274pp., good. 5.00
Vitebsky, Piers.
Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia.
HarperCollins. 900g. Index, 464pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Wagner, Kip. (As told to L.B. Taylor, Jnr.)
Pieces of Eight: Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet.
Longmans 1967 Frontis., plates, appendix, 221pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Weir, Thomas.
Camps and Climbs in Arctic Norway.
The Travel Book Club nd. c. 1960 Plates, maps, appendix, 85pp., good in d/w. 5.00
Weir, Thomas.
East of Katmandu.
Oliver and Boyd 1955 First edition. 500g. Frontis., plates, 138pp., good in repaired d/w. 7.00
Wilby, Sorrel.
Tibet: A Woman's Lone Trek Across a Mysterious Land.
MacMillan 1988 600g. Plates, 219pp., inscr. else good in d/w. 5.00
Williams, Maslyn.
Stone Age Island: Seven years in New Guinea.
Collins 1964 Sources, 352pp., good in d/w. 8.00
Worsley, Commander F.A.
Shackleton's Boat Journey.
Intro. and notes by Duncan Carse.
The Folio Society 1974 Frontis., plates, 147pp., good in slipcase. 6.00
Worsley, F.A.
Shackleton's Boat Journey.
Intro. by Sara Wheeler.
Pimlico 350g. Plates, 220pp., card covers, ex-lib. copy with a few stamps else good. 3.50
Young, Gavin.
Eye on the World.
Viking. 205mm. by 265mm., 850g. Plates, 176pp., ex-lib. copy with usual stamps else good in d/w. 5.00