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	ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY A Book of Famous Travels: Volume XII Auxiliary Educational League, 1930. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Pages and covers toned. CONTENTS: One Hundred and Thirty-Two Black and White Pictures in the Text, List of Colored Illustrations: On the California and Oregon Trail. Frontispiece; "At Length..I Shot a Bullet Into the Buffalo"; In Ceylon; The Sphinx; A Scene on the River Rhine; An Arab Fountain; Bazaars; An Oriental Scene. CONTENTS: Publisher's Note; List of Colored Illustrations; Around the World by George A. Henty; Impressions of Cape Town by R.J. Cleveland; Four Monts in Uganda by Captain Speke; The Discovery of the Victoria Nyanza by Captain Burton; Mungo Park's Perils by T. Banks MacLachlan; The Buffalo on the Plains by F. Parkman; In the Great American Desert by Washington Irving; Hardships of Arctic Travel by Elisha Kent Kane, M.D.; Commander Cook's Last Voyage, A.D. 1776 by W.H.G. Kingston; Life in the Australian Bush From Chambers' Miscellany; In Canada by the Marquis of Lorne; In Ceylon By the Rev. W. Urwick, M.A.; Glimpses of the East by A.W. Kinglake; The Second Cataract by Amelia B. Edwards; Impressions of England By R.W. Emerson; Stratford-on-Avon By Washington Irving; Views Afoot in Europe by Bayard Taylor; Canoeing on the Rhine by J. Macgregor, M.A.; Among the Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee by Henry Havard; Wonders of Iceland by Lord Dufferin; The Taj Mahal by the Rev. W. Urwick, M.A.; Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens; A Visit to the Island of Juan Fernandez by R.H. Dana; Scenes in Thangier by T. Bailey Aldrich; The Forests of New Brunswick by the Marquis of Lorne; Travelling in Northern Russia by A.D. Mackenzie Wallace; Bazaars: An Oriental Scene by George William Curtis; At Tahiti by Lady Brassey; Journeying in Spain by Washington Irving; Biographical Notes; Suggestions for Supplementary Reading. USD 6.33 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 559] Book number: 054701 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BARAMKI, D.C. Road to Petra: A Short Illustrated Guide to East Jordan Anton Nazzal & Sons, 1973. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A beautiful copy. "Petra (from 'petra', rock in Greek; Arabic: al-Bitra-) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. Its famous description 'a rose-red city half as old as time' is the final line of a sonnet by the minor Victorian poet John William Burgon, which won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, given at Oxford, 1845. Burgon had not actually visited Petra, which remained inaccessible to all but the most intrepid Europeans, guided by local guides with armed escorts, until after World War I." -- Wikipedia. USD 3.70 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 327] Book number: 050616 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BEAGLE, PETER S. I See by My Outfit Ballantine Books, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Minor shelf and cover edge wear, pages faintly toned. "Peter Soyer Beagle (April 20, 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, when he was only 19 years old. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn, which routinely polls as one of the top ten fantasy novels of all time, and at least two of his other books (A Fine and Private Place and I See By My Outfit) are considered modern classics. He wrote the teleplay for episode 71 of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, titled "Sarek." He wrote the screenplay for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi-animated version of The Lord of the Rings, the film which first inspired a teenaged Peter Jackson to read J.R.R. Tolkien, and he wrote an introduction page for the American edition of The Lord of the Rings in the early 1970s. His work as a screenwriter interrupted his early career direction as a novelist, magazine nonfiction author, and short-story writer. But in the mid-'90s he returned to prose fiction of all lengths, and has produced new works at a steady pace since. In addition to his own body of work, he is sole heir to the literary estates of science fiction author Edgar Pangborn, Edgar's sister and sometime collaborator Mary, and their mother Georgia Wood Pangborn. Since 2003 he has been working to bring the best of these three authors' fiction back into print. In 2005 he finally published a coda to The Last Unicorn, a novelette entitled "Two Hearts," and began work on a full-novel sequel. In 2006, "Two Hearts" won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Novelette and in 2007 it won the Nebula Award in the same category. The story was also nominated as a short fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Award." -- Wikipedia. USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 88] Book number: 061858 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	CONDUIT, BRIAN The Best Pathfinder Walks Ordnance Survey / Jarrold Publishing, 1994. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1" dust jacket tear, light shelf wear. 120 pages. Color photographs and maps. "Forty-eight of the most attractive walks from the Jarrold/Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Walks guides are featured in this book. From clifftop paths with stunning views to peaceful river banks, and from shady forest tracks to rolling moorland, this selection shows the great variety of marvellous scenery accessible to walkers in Great Britain.". USD 6.13 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 541] Book number: 1509527 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	CUNLIFFE, TOM Topsail & Battleaxe: A Voyage in the Wake of the Vikings David & Charles, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise a beautiful copy. Binding tight, pages clean & bright, text unmarked. "Tom Cunliffe and his wife, Ros, gathered their four-year-old daughter and a couple of friends and embark on an amazing expedition sailing north from England to Norway, bashing their way westward from Norway to Iceland, then past Greenland to L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland in the 75 year-old pilot cutter Hirta. Their burning desire to retrace the explorations of the 10th century Vikings is told with gusto, and Cunliffe interweaves stories of Viking adventures with Hirta's progress, relating a great deal about ancient Viking history and showing that the Viking spirit still lives on in present-day Scandinavians.". USD 6.25 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 552] Book number: 1502310 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	DICKEY, CHRISTOPHER Expats: Travels in Arabia, from Tripoli to Tehran Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Like New. Remainder mark on page base. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, & unmarked. xi, 228 pages. "Award-winning Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey offers an interesting look at the Arab world as seen through the eyes of some the western expatriates -- lost colonels and aging explorers, oilmen, sea captains, even retired spies -- lingering in the Middle East.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 393] Book number: 1501225 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	DOIG, IVAN Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America Harvest / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Nice copy with corner edge wear & mild page ridge tone, text clean & binding tight. 246 pp. "Ivan Doig (born on June 27, 1939) is an American novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. After the death of his mother Berneta, on his sixth birthday, he was raised by his father Charles "Charlie" Doig and his grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front. After his graduation from Valier high school, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). He now lives with his wife Carol Doig, nÃ©e Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington. Before Ivan Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service. Much of his fiction is set in the Montana country of his youth. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. As the western landscape and people play an important role in his fiction, he has been hailed as the new dean of western literature, a worthy successor to Wallace Stegner." - Wikipedia. USD 3.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 304] Book number: 1515201 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	DURHAM, MICHAEL S. The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Desert States Stewart, Tabori & Change, Inc. 1990. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Inside of dust jacket slightly toned. "One in a series of illustrated guides to the historic places of America, covering towns, cities and natural wonders. The books are arranged to facilitate easy reference, with entries arranged geographically and including maps to locate important sites and landmarks. ". USD 7.55 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 666] Book number: 1510635 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	GELMAN, RITA GOLDEN Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World Crown Publishers, Inc. 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Bright like new copy in a like new dust jacket. 311 pp. First edition. Signed by the author. "There's more than one way to do life. In a small cemetery deep in the jungle of Borneo, two men climb into a freshly dug hole and retrieve the bones of a long-dead grandmother. An American guest joins the procession from the cemetery to the elaborately decorated village square for a traditional ceremony that will properly send Grandma off on her journey to the next world. In years past, a man from a neighboring tribe was sacrificed whenever this ceremony was performed. Today, in a new era, the neighboring tribe has been invited to participate in the festivities, and the only victim is a cow. A few years earlier the American guest, Rita Golden Gelman, a children's book author and the mother of two grown children, was living in a comfortable suburban home, dining in elegant restaurants, and attending glamorous parties. Rita only dreamed of traveling to exotic places and experiencing other cultures. When her marriage failed, she decided to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and, at the age of forty-eight, took off to see the world. Fifteen years later, she's still without a permanent home. Rita has lived in Mexico and the Galapagos Islands, Bali and New Guinea, Israel, Nicaragua, Thailand, and New Zealand. And she's still moving. Although she's not athletically gifted or independently wealthy, Rita has climbed mountains, paddled up rivers, and subsisted for a year on what many people spend in a few months. In Tales of a Female Nomad, Rita shares how she, an ordinary woman, has created a spectacular life, filled with interesting people, enlightening experiences, and fascinating adventures. Determined to understand each local culture she visits, Rita stays not in hotels but with the natives on sleeping platforms or in huts, cement block houses, mountain cabins, or small bungalows. She even spent four years at a palace in Bali, complete with a prince. She's observed orangutans in the rain forests of Borneo, served as an unofficial tour guide in the Galapagos, taught herself the Indonesian language, and forged many lasting cross-cultural friendships. And the food â€” Rita has learned to cook exotic cuisine of all kinds, from elaborate Thai dishes to Nicaragua's staple, gallo pinto. In addition to her tales of adventure, Rita shares the nitty-gritty details of how she manages to travel on scant funds and live without modern conveniences. To participate actively in the daily life of the communities she visits, she has learned to trust strangers to help her find places to stay and to teach her the local ways. The payoff is that she gains their trust as well. Dynamic, vivacious, and a marvelous weaver of tales, Rita celebrates her glorious transformation from an unfulfilled suburbanite to a liberated and incredibly self-assured woman of the world. More than a travel memoir, Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of a woman's rebirth. Rita Golden Gelman's real-life tale proves beyond a doubt that anyone can cast away the burdens of conventional life at any age and continue â€” or begin â€” to thrive.". USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 1514670 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	GODDARD, JOHN Kayaks Down the Nile Brigham Young University Press, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket edge wear & surface rubbing, light page toning, chips and tears to dust jacket edges, general shelf wear. "In 1940, when he was 15 years old, he wrote down a list of 127 goals he wanted to accomplish, from learning to type and becoming an Eagle Scout to climbing Mt. Everest and exploring the Nile. "When I was 15," he told LIFE magazine, "all the adults I knew seemed to complain, 'Oh, if only I'd done this or that when I was younger.' They had let life slip by them. I was sure that if I planned for it, I could have a life of excitement and fun and knowledge". After serving in World War II with the Army Air Forces, he began pursuing the goals on his list in earnest, and in 1951 became the first man to navigate the entire length of the Nile in a kayak; this and subsequent adventures, such as exploring the Congo River in 1956 and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1968, fueled a successful career on the lecture circuit. Goddard has written two books: The Survivor and Kayaks Down the Nile, and been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul. Has he lived to see the 21st century." -- Wikipedia. USD 6.25 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 552] Book number: 1506482 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	HEYERDAHL, THOR; LYON, F.H. (TRANSLATOR) Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1951. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Light stain on top page ridge, some shelf wear. 304 pages. Black & white photographs. "Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom 'Kon-Tiki' was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of the popular book that Heyerdahl wrote about his adventures. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. (Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, these were argued to be incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.) The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans, along with donations of equipment from the US Army. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where, with the help of dockyard facilities provided by the Peruvian authorities, they constructed the raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was originally published in 1950 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl, directed by Bengt Jonson. The original Kon-Tiki boat is now on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo." -- Wikipedia. USD 6.60 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 582] Book number: 1508485 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	HEYERDAHL, THOR; LYON, F.H. (TRANSLATOR) Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1950. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Light shelf wear, pages slightly toned. 304 pages. Black & white photographs. "Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom 'Kon-Tiki' was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of the popular book that Heyerdahl wrote about his adventures. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. (Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, these were argued to be incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.) The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans, along with donations of equipment from the US Army. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where, with the help of dockyard facilities provided by the Peruvian authorities, they constructed the raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was originally published in 1950 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl, directed by Bengt Jonson. The original Kon-Tiki boat is now on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo." -- Wikipedia. USD 6.60 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 582] Book number: 1507854 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	HUTTON, EDWARD Naples and Campania Revisited Hollis & Carter, London, 1958. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Minor highlighting & pencil in text, dust jacket edge & surface wear (reinforced on reverse of spine edges with tape). Binding tight. xii, 286 pages. Black & white photographs and maps. "Naples (Italian: Napoli, Neapolitan: Napule) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old. Naples is located halfway between two volcanic areas, the volcano Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, sitting on the coast by the Gulf of Naples." -- Wikipedia. USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 790] Book number: 1505346 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	IYER, PICO (EDITOR); WILSON, JASON (SERIES EDITOR) The Best American Travel Writing 2004 Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Minor cover edge wear, otherwise in beautiful condition. Binding tight, pages clean, text unmarked. "Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Travel Writing 2004 transports readers from Patagonia to Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont. Readers are treated to car and truck trips across America, can fall "in lust" in the South Pacific, and go into the heart of the Congo to rescue gorillas. This year's volume is edited by Pico Iyer, who writes in his fascinating introduction, "Restlessness is part of the American way. It's part of what brought many of the rest of us to America." The Best American Travel Writing 2004 displays American restlessness at its most tantalizing and entertaining.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 393] Book number: 1505997 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	KLEES, EMERSON Persons, Places, and Things in the Finger Lake Region Friends of the Finger Lake Publishing, 1993. Large Softcover. Like New. Pages unmarked, binding tight, beautiful condition. " A 'where to' for the Finger Lakes Region". USD 8.03 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 709] Book number: 1510545 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	KUNANBAY, ALMA; ABAYHAN, AYLIN (TRANSLATOR); SCHAMILOGLU, ULI (TRANSLATOR) The Soul of Kazakhstan Easten Press, 2001. Ex-Library. Large Hardcover. Ill.: Eastep, Wayne (photographs). Good/Good. EX-LIBRARY. Usual library marks. Rear hinge slightly loose (netting visible), front free endpaper removed. 260 pages. A collection of color photographs depicting the landscape and culture of Kazakhstan. "Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large country situated in Central Asia and, according to the Council of Europe, Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 kmÂ² (greater than Western Europe). It is bordered by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China. The country also borders on a significant part of the Caspian Sea. Vast in size, the land in Kazakhstan is very diverse in types of terrain: flatlands, steppes, taigas, rock-canyons, hills, deltas, mountains, snow-capped mountains and deserts." -- Wikipedia. USD 20.85 [Appr.: EURO 14 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1840] Book number: 1508903 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	LOUX, JOHN & NAOMI Cruising the World in Style: Sea, Sky and Splendor: First Edition Exposition Press, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page with no additional printings indicated and a $7.00 list price on front dust jacket flap. Minor dust jacket edge wear, dust jacket & pages toned, foxing on book hinges. All Aboard for South America!; Amazing Africa; To the Taj Mahal: India and Sri Lanka; Asian Splendors: From Malaysia to Japan; Aloha: Hawaii and Home. USD 18.70 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 \| £UK 11.25 \| JP¥ 1650] Book number: 069045 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MANRY, ROBERT Tinkerbelle: The Story of the Smallest Boat Ever to Cross the Atlantic Nonstop Harper & Row, 1966. Hard Cover. Ill.: Hearn, Roy C. Very Good/Good. Very good bright copy, map illustrated end papers, in a lightly edge worn dust jacket, pages clean, binding tight. 244 pp. "Robert Manry (June 2, 1918 â€“ February 21, 1971) was a copy editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer who in 1965 sailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts to Falmouth, Cornwall, England in a tiny 13.5 foot (4 m) sailboat (an Old Town "Whitecap" built by the Old Town Canoe Co. of Old Town, Maine, which he had extensively modified for the voyage) named Tinkerbelle. Beginning on June 1, 1965 and ending on August 17, the voyage lasted 78 days. At the time, the Tinkerbelle was the smallest boat to make a non-stop trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Manry later wrote about the voyage and its preparation in his book Tinkerbelle, in which the sailor expressed shock and surprise at the huge crowds and armada of small boats that greeted his arrival in Cornwall. Manry died February 21, 1971 from a heart attack in Union City, Pennsylvania. A small park in Willowick Ohio, the town he lived in before his journey, is named after him. Tinkerbelle is on display at The Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.". USD 7.45 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 658] Book number: 1515877 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MATTHIESSEN, PETER African Silences Vintage Books, 1992. Trade Paperback. Good. Minor cover edge wear, pages lightly toned. "African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- nominated for the National Book Award -- and Sand Rivers. Through his eyes we see elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures of the wild. We share the drama of the journeys themselves, including a hazardous crossing of the continent in a light plane. And along the way, we learn of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies, and threatened by the slow ecological catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken." CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Prologue; African Silences: Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast (1978); Of Peacocks and Gorilas: Zaire (1978); Pygmies and Pygmy Elephants: The Congo Basin (1986); Epilogue. USD 2.95 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 260] Book number: 057836 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MCAULEY, IAN Guide to Ethnic London Immel Publishing, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ink marking on back cover, some minor ink markings on title page, general shelf wear. CONTENTS: Introduction; Chinese London; Asian London; Polish London; Italian London; Jewish London; Irish London; Greek and Turkish London; Black London; Arab London; Bibliography; Index. "A guide to the many faces of London & its ethnic districts. Everything from restaurants and shops to historical walks and festivals.". USD 4.70 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 \| £UK 3 \| JP¥ 415] Book number: 1507758 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MCMURTRY, LARRY Roads: Driving America's Great Highways Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Binding tight, no page markings, beautiful condition. " I wanted to drive the American roads at the century's end, to look at the country again, from border to border and beach to beach.. "From earliest boyhood the American road has been part of my life -- central to it, I would even say. The ranch house in which I spent my first seven years sits only a mile from highway 281, the long road that traverses the central plains, all the way from Manitoba to the Mexican border at McAllen, Texas. In winter I could hear the trucks crawling up 281 as I went to sleep. In summer I would sit on the front porch with my parents and grandparents, watching the lights of cars as they traveled up and down that road. We were thoroughly landlocked. I had no river to float on, to wonder about. Highway 281 was my river, its hidden reaches a mystery and an enticement. I began my life beside it and I want to drift down the entire length of it before I end this book. "Other than curiosity, there's no particular reason for these travels -- just the old desire to be on the move. My destination is also my route, my motive only an interest in having the nomad in me survive a little longer. I'm not attempting to take the national pulse, or even my own pulse. I doubt that I will be having folksy conversations with people I meet as I travel. Today, in fact, I drove 770 miles, from Duluth, Minnesota, to Wichita, Kansas, speaking only about twenty words: a thank-you at a Quik Stop south of Duluth, where I bought orange juice and doughnuts; a lunch order in Bethany, Missouri; and a request for a room once I got to Wichita.. "I intend to travel mainly on the great roads, the interstates: my routes will be the 10, the 40, the 70, 80, and 90; or if I'm in the mood to go north-south, I will mostly use the 5, the 25, 35, 75. The 95 I intend to ignore. I will, from time to time, switch off the interstates onto smaller roads, but only if they provide useful connectives, or take me to interesting places that the great roads -- whose aim is to move you, not educate you -- don't yet go.. "Three passions have dominated my more than sixty years of mostly happy life: books, women, and the road. As age approaches, the appetite for long drives may leave me, which is why I want to get rolling now.. "The challenge of the solitary traveler is always the same: to find something out there that the reader will enjoy knowing about, or, at least, that the reader can be persuaded to read about. Usually, if there is no one but themselves in the narrative, the great travel writers rely on the extremes to which the environment forces them to produce the interest: Antarctica, and the failure of Scott to beat it, in Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World or Arabia's Empty Quarter and the ability of the Bedouin to just beat it, in Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands. "I don't think I'm likely to encounter anything so extreme as the snows of Antarctica or the dunes of Arabia along the American interstates. At least I hope not. But I want to drive them anyway..just to see what I see. I merely want to write about the roads as I find them, starting in January of 1999, in Duluth, Minnesota, at the north end of the long and lonesome 35." -- LARRY McMURTRY ". USD 4.70 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 \| £UK 3 \| JP¥ 415] Book number: 1510568 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MCQUILLAN, DAN Ireland Guide: Be a Traveler - Not a Tourist! Open Road Publishing, 2001. Trade Paperback. Good. Cover edge wear & corner creasing, stain to bottom page corners/ridges, general shelf wear. "Most travelers go away for two weeks or less, so why is it that every major travel publisher offers huge books where 90% of the content like the human brain goes unused. Open Road has the solution, the perfect travel guide, because we now offer a choice consumers have not had before: a guide that actually gives readers the content they need for the trip they want! Readers can flip through the book and go to the section that matches how much time they have budgeted, and then go right to that section and see our expert trip ideas. They will also see at a glance which hotels and restaurants are best for them, where the happening nightlife is, the best sports and recreation, and where the most authentic, local shopping can be found. Open Roads Best of Ireland gives readers a small number of great choices and itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week and two-week trips to whatever part of Ireland they are visiting. Only the best of Ireland is included, with great ideas for Dublin, the Blarney Stone, Powerscourt Gardens, Newgrange, Cork, rugged coastal towns, even Belfast and Northern Ireland. Readers will learn about the top medieval castles they can stay in, the best places to shop for sweaters and Claddagh rings, a unique literary pub crawl, and much more! Best of all, we don't weigh readers down with tons of useless information Â¿ we cut to the chase and give readers short descriptions of the best Ireland has to offer.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 393] Book number: 1505735 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MILLAR, GEORGE Isabel and the Sea Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1948. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Nice copy with corner edge wear & stain to boards, bookplate on front end paper. 307 pp. Account of a voyage in a ketch from England to Greece. USD 11.95 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1055] Book number: 1514861 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	LEAST HEAT MOON, WILLIAM (WILLIAM TROGDON) Blue Highways: A Journey Into America Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Trade Paperback. Ill.: Least Heat Moon, William (William Trogdon). Like New. Spine faintly creased. "First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen .. [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored.". USD 6.13 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 541] Book number: 1510111 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MURDOCH, NINA Tyrolean June: A Summer Holiday in Austrian Tyrol Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1936. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Ill.: Defner, Adalbert (photographs). Good/No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. Front hinge just starting, usual library marks, light shelf wear, pages slightly toned. Text clean & unmarked. 280 pages. Black & white photographs. CONTENTS: Phantom Prelude; Summer Day at Pertisau; Of the Achensee and Saint Notburga; Hitler's Tax, a Prince, and Some Old Inns; Medieval Kitzbuhel; On Cheese and Gravy and Pagan Christians; Baroque from a Gothic Window; The Goldene Dachl and Maximilian's Tomb; 'Anno Neun'; At Corpus Christi; The Abbey Where a Giant Fought a Dragon; Enchanted Stubaital; Thiersee's Passion-Play; 'Christus'; The Salt-Mine; Schwaz and the Frundsbergs' Stronghold; Castles into Palaces; Rattenberg; Innsbruck Again; Zillertal and a Mountain Thunderstorm; Good-Bye from Patscherkofel; Index. "Tyrol is a region in Western Central Europe, which included the present day Austrian state of Tyrol (consisting of North Tyrol and East Tyrol), the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/SÃ¼dtirol (South Tyrol) and three communes of the Veneto Italian region (Livinallongo del Col di Lana, Colle Santa Lucia and Cortina d'Ampezzo)." -- Wikipedia. USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 790] Book number: 1504288 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.

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	ALDRICH, THOMAS BAILEY A Book of Famous Travels: Volume XII Auxiliary Educational League, 1930. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Pages and covers toned. CONTENTS: One Hundred and Thirty-Two Black and White Pictures in the Text, List of Colored Illustrations: On the California and Oregon Trail. Frontispiece; "At Length..I Shot a Bullet Into the Buffalo"; In Ceylon; The Sphinx; A Scene on the River Rhine; An Arab Fountain; Bazaars; An Oriental Scene. CONTENTS: Publisher's Note; List of Colored Illustrations; Around the World by George A. Henty; Impressions of Cape Town by R.J. Cleveland; Four Monts in Uganda by Captain Speke; The Discovery of the Victoria Nyanza by Captain Burton; Mungo Park's Perils by T. Banks MacLachlan; The Buffalo on the Plains by F. Parkman; In the Great American Desert by Washington Irving; Hardships of Arctic Travel by Elisha Kent Kane, M.D.; Commander Cook's Last Voyage, A.D. 1776 by W.H.G. Kingston; Life in the Australian Bush From Chambers' Miscellany; In Canada by the Marquis of Lorne; In Ceylon By the Rev. W. Urwick, M.A.; Glimpses of the East by A.W. Kinglake; The Second Cataract by Amelia B. Edwards; Impressions of England By R.W. Emerson; Stratford-on-Avon By Washington Irving; Views Afoot in Europe by Bayard Taylor; Canoeing on the Rhine by J. Macgregor, M.A.; Among the Dead Cities of the Zuyder Zee by Henry Havard; Wonders of Iceland by Lord Dufferin; The Taj Mahal by the Rev. W. Urwick, M.A.; Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens; A Visit to the Island of Juan Fernandez by R.H. Dana; Scenes in Thangier by T. Bailey Aldrich; The Forests of New Brunswick by the Marquis of Lorne; Travelling in Northern Russia by A.D. Mackenzie Wallace; Bazaars: An Oriental Scene by George William Curtis; At Tahiti by Lady Brassey; Journeying in Spain by Washington Irving; Biographical Notes; Suggestions for Supplementary Reading. USD 6.33 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 559] Book number: 054701 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BARAMKI, D.C. Road to Petra: A Short Illustrated Guide to East Jordan Anton Nazzal & Sons, 1973. Trade Paperback. Very Good. A beautiful copy. "Petra (from 'petra', rock in Greek; Arabic: al-Bitra-) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. Its famous description 'a rose-red city half as old as time' is the final line of a sonnet by the minor Victorian poet John William Burgon, which won the Newdigate Prize for poetry, given at Oxford, 1845. Burgon had not actually visited Petra, which remained inaccessible to all but the most intrepid Europeans, guided by local guides with armed escorts, until after World War I." -- Wikipedia. USD 3.70 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 327] Book number: 050616 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	BEAGLE, PETER S. I See by My Outfit Ballantine Books, 1976. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Minor shelf and cover edge wear, pages faintly toned. "Peter Soyer Beagle (April 20, 1939) is an American fantasist and author of novels, nonfiction, and screenplays. He is also a talented guitarist and folk singer. He wrote his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, when he was only 19 years old. Today he is best known as the author of The Last Unicorn, which routinely polls as one of the top ten fantasy novels of all time, and at least two of his other books (A Fine and Private Place and I See By My Outfit) are considered modern classics. He wrote the teleplay for episode 71 of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, titled "Sarek." He wrote the screenplay for the 1978 Ralph Bakshi-animated version of The Lord of the Rings, the film which first inspired a teenaged Peter Jackson to read J.R.R. Tolkien, and he wrote an introduction page for the American edition of The Lord of the Rings in the early 1970s. His work as a screenwriter interrupted his early career direction as a novelist, magazine nonfiction author, and short-story writer. But in the mid-'90s he returned to prose fiction of all lengths, and has produced new works at a steady pace since. In addition to his own body of work, he is sole heir to the literary estates of science fiction author Edgar Pangborn, Edgar's sister and sometime collaborator Mary, and their mother Georgia Wood Pangborn. Since 2003 he has been working to bring the best of these three authors' fiction back into print. In 2005 he finally published a coda to The Last Unicorn, a novelette entitled "Two Hearts," and began work on a full-novel sequel. In 2006, "Two Hearts" won the prestigious Hugo Award for Best Novelette and in 2007 it won the Nebula Award in the same category. The story was also nominated as a short fiction finalist for the World Fantasy Award." -- Wikipedia. USD 1.00 [Appr.: EURO 0.75 \| £UK 0.75 \| JP¥ 88] Book number: 061858 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	CONDUIT, BRIAN The Best Pathfinder Walks Ordnance Survey / Jarrold Publishing, 1994. Large Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1" dust jacket tear, light shelf wear. 120 pages. Color photographs and maps. "Forty-eight of the most attractive walks from the Jarrold/Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Walks guides are featured in this book. From clifftop paths with stunning views to peaceful river banks, and from shady forest tracks to rolling moorland, this selection shows the great variety of marvellous scenery accessible to walkers in Great Britain.". USD 6.13 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 541] Book number: 1509527 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	CUNLIFFE, TOM Topsail & Battleaxe: A Voyage in the Wake of the Vikings David & Charles, 1988. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise a beautiful copy. Binding tight, pages clean & bright, text unmarked. "Tom Cunliffe and his wife, Ros, gathered their four-year-old daughter and a couple of friends and embark on an amazing expedition sailing north from England to Norway, bashing their way westward from Norway to Iceland, then past Greenland to L'Anse aux Meadows in Northern Newfoundland in the 75 year-old pilot cutter Hirta. Their burning desire to retrace the explorations of the 10th century Vikings is told with gusto, and Cunliffe interweaves stories of Viking adventures with Hirta's progress, relating a great deal about ancient Viking history and showing that the Viking spirit still lives on in present-day Scandinavians.". USD 6.25 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 552] Book number: 1502310 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	DICKEY, CHRISTOPHER Expats: Travels in Arabia, from Tripoli to Tehran Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Like New. Remainder mark on page base. Binding tight, pages clean, bright, & unmarked. xi, 228 pages. "Award-winning Newsweek reporter Christopher Dickey offers an interesting look at the Arab world as seen through the eyes of some the western expatriates -- lost colonels and aging explorers, oilmen, sea captains, even retired spies -- lingering in the Middle East.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 393] Book number: 1501225 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	DOIG, IVAN Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of America Harvest / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Nice copy with corner edge wear & mild page ridge tone, text clean & binding tight. 246 pp. "Ivan Doig (born on June 27, 1939) is an American novelist. He was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana to a family of homesteaders and ranch hands. After the death of his mother Berneta, on his sixth birthday, he was raised by his father Charles "Charlie" Doig and his grandmother Elizabeth "Bessie" Ringer. After several stints on ranches, they moved to Dupuyer, Pondera County, Montana in the north to herd sheep close to the Rocky Mountain Front. After his graduation from Valier high school, Doig attended Northwestern University, where he received a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in journalism. He later earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Washington, writing his dissertation about John J. McGilvra (1827-1903). He now lives with his wife Carol Doig, nÃ©e Muller, a university professor of English, in Seattle, Washington. Before Ivan Doig became a novelist, he wrote for newspapers and magazines as a free-lancer and worked for the United States Forest Service. Much of his fiction is set in the Montana country of his youth. His major theme is family life in the past, mixing personal memory and regional history. As the western landscape and people play an important role in his fiction, he has been hailed as the new dean of western literature, a worthy successor to Wallace Stegner." - Wikipedia. USD 3.45 [Appr.: EURO 2.5 \| £UK 2.25 \| JP¥ 304] Book number: 1515201 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	DURHAM, MICHAEL S. The Smithsonian Guide to Historic America: The Desert States Stewart, Tabori & Change, Inc. 1990. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Inside of dust jacket slightly toned. "One in a series of illustrated guides to the historic places of America, covering towns, cities and natural wonders. The books are arranged to facilitate easy reference, with entries arranged geographically and including maps to locate important sites and landmarks. ". USD 7.55 [Appr.: EURO 5.25 \| £UK 4.75 \| JP¥ 666] Book number: 1510635 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	GELMAN, RITA GOLDEN Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World Crown Publishers, Inc. 2001. First Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Bright like new copy in a like new dust jacket. 311 pp. First edition. Signed by the author. "There's more than one way to do life. In a small cemetery deep in the jungle of Borneo, two men climb into a freshly dug hole and retrieve the bones of a long-dead grandmother. An American guest joins the procession from the cemetery to the elaborately decorated village square for a traditional ceremony that will properly send Grandma off on her journey to the next world. In years past, a man from a neighboring tribe was sacrificed whenever this ceremony was performed. Today, in a new era, the neighboring tribe has been invited to participate in the festivities, and the only victim is a cow. A few years earlier the American guest, Rita Golden Gelman, a children's book author and the mother of two grown children, was living in a comfortable suburban home, dining in elegant restaurants, and attending glamorous parties. Rita only dreamed of traveling to exotic places and experiencing other cultures. When her marriage failed, she decided to live her dream. She sold all her possessions and, at the age of forty-eight, took off to see the world. Fifteen years later, she's still without a permanent home. Rita has lived in Mexico and the Galapagos Islands, Bali and New Guinea, Israel, Nicaragua, Thailand, and New Zealand. And she's still moving. Although she's not athletically gifted or independently wealthy, Rita has climbed mountains, paddled up rivers, and subsisted for a year on what many people spend in a few months. In Tales of a Female Nomad, Rita shares how she, an ordinary woman, has created a spectacular life, filled with interesting people, enlightening experiences, and fascinating adventures. Determined to understand each local culture she visits, Rita stays not in hotels but with the natives on sleeping platforms or in huts, cement block houses, mountain cabins, or small bungalows. She even spent four years at a palace in Bali, complete with a prince. She's observed orangutans in the rain forests of Borneo, served as an unofficial tour guide in the Galapagos, taught herself the Indonesian language, and forged many lasting cross-cultural friendships. And the food â€” Rita has learned to cook exotic cuisine of all kinds, from elaborate Thai dishes to Nicaragua's staple, gallo pinto. In addition to her tales of adventure, Rita shares the nitty-gritty details of how she manages to travel on scant funds and live without modern conveniences. To participate actively in the daily life of the communities she visits, she has learned to trust strangers to help her find places to stay and to teach her the local ways. The payoff is that she gains their trust as well. Dynamic, vivacious, and a marvelous weaver of tales, Rita celebrates her glorious transformation from an unfulfilled suburbanite to a liberated and incredibly self-assured woman of the world. More than a travel memoir, Tales of a Female Nomad is the story of a woman's rebirth. Rita Golden Gelman's real-life tale proves beyond a doubt that anyone can cast away the burdens of conventional life at any age and continue â€” or begin â€” to thrive.". USD 19.95 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12 \| JP¥ 1761] Book number: 1514670 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	GODDARD, JOHN Kayaks Down the Nile Brigham Young University Press, 1979. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Dust jacket edge wear & surface rubbing, light page toning, chips and tears to dust jacket edges, general shelf wear. "In 1940, when he was 15 years old, he wrote down a list of 127 goals he wanted to accomplish, from learning to type and becoming an Eagle Scout to climbing Mt. Everest and exploring the Nile. "When I was 15," he told LIFE magazine, "all the adults I knew seemed to complain, 'Oh, if only I'd done this or that when I was younger.' They had let life slip by them. I was sure that if I planned for it, I could have a life of excitement and fun and knowledge". After serving in World War II with the Army Air Forces, he began pursuing the goals on his list in earnest, and in 1951 became the first man to navigate the entire length of the Nile in a kayak; this and subsequent adventures, such as exploring the Congo River in 1956 and climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in 1968, fueled a successful career on the lecture circuit. Goddard has written two books: The Survivor and Kayaks Down the Nile, and been featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul. Has he lived to see the 21st century." -- Wikipedia. USD 6.25 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 552] Book number: 1506482 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	HEYERDAHL, THOR; LYON, F.H. (TRANSLATOR) Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1951. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Light stain on top page ridge, some shelf wear. 304 pages. Black & white photographs. "Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom 'Kon-Tiki' was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of the popular book that Heyerdahl wrote about his adventures. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. (Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, these were argued to be incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.) The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans, along with donations of equipment from the US Army. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where, with the help of dockyard facilities provided by the Peruvian authorities, they constructed the raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was originally published in 1950 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl, directed by Bengt Jonson. The original Kon-Tiki boat is now on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo." -- Wikipedia. USD 6.60 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 582] Book number: 1508485 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	HEYERDAHL, THOR; LYON, F.H. (TRANSLATOR) Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1950. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No dust jacket. Light shelf wear, pages slightly toned. 304 pages. Black & white photographs. "Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norwegian explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesian islands. It was named after the Inca sun god, Viracocha, for whom 'Kon-Tiki' was said to be an old name. Kon-Tiki is also the name of the popular book that Heyerdahl wrote about his adventures. Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. His aim in mounting the Kon-Tiki expedition was to show, by using only the materials and technologies available to those people at the time, that there were no technical reasons to prevent them from having done so. (Although the expedition carried some modern equipment, such as a radio, watches, charts, sextant, and metal knives, these were argued to be incidental to the purpose of proving that the raft itself could make the journey.) The Kon-Tiki expedition was funded by private loans, along with donations of equipment from the US Army. Heyerdahl and a small team went to Peru, where, with the help of dockyard facilities provided by the Peruvian authorities, they constructed the raft out of balsa logs and other native materials in an indigenous style as recorded in illustrations by Spanish conquistadores. The trip began on April 28, 1947. Heyerdahl and five companions sailed the raft for 101 days over 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean before smashing into a reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands on August 7, 1947. The crew made successful landfall and all returned safely. Thor Heyerdahl's book about his experience became a bestseller. It was originally published in 1950 as The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the South Seas, later reprinted as Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific in a Raft. A documentary motion picture about the expedition, also called Kon-Tiki was produced from a write-up and expansion of the crew's filmstrip notes and won an Academy Award in 1951. It was directed by Thor Heyerdahl and edited by Olle Nordemar. The voyage was also chronicled in the documentary TV-series The Kon-Tiki Man: The Life and Adventures of Thor Heyerdahl, directed by Bengt Jonson. The original Kon-Tiki boat is now on display in the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo." -- Wikipedia. USD 6.60 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 \| £UK 4 \| JP¥ 582] Book number: 1507854 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	HUTTON, EDWARD Naples and Campania Revisited Hollis & Carter, London, 1958. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Minor highlighting & pencil in text, dust jacket edge & surface wear (reinforced on reverse of spine edges with tape). Binding tight. xii, 286 pages. Black & white photographs and maps. "Naples (Italian: Napoli, Neapolitan: Napule) is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old. Naples is located halfway between two volcanic areas, the volcano Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, sitting on the coast by the Gulf of Naples." -- Wikipedia. USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 790] Book number: 1505346 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	IYER, PICO (EDITOR); WILSON, JASON (SERIES EDITOR) The Best American Travel Writing 2004 Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Minor cover edge wear, otherwise in beautiful condition. Binding tight, pages clean, text unmarked. "Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a guest editor who is widely recognized as a leading writer in his or her field. This unique system has helped make the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Travel Writing 2004 transports readers from Patagonia to Ivory Coast to small-town Vermont. Readers are treated to car and truck trips across America, can fall "in lust" in the South Pacific, and go into the heart of the Congo to rescue gorillas. This year's volume is edited by Pico Iyer, who writes in his fascinating introduction, "Restlessness is part of the American way. It's part of what brought many of the rest of us to America." The Best American Travel Writing 2004 displays American restlessness at its most tantalizing and entertaining.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 393] Book number: 1505997 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	KLEES, EMERSON Persons, Places, and Things in the Finger Lake Region Friends of the Finger Lake Publishing, 1993. Large Softcover. Like New. Pages unmarked, binding tight, beautiful condition. " A 'where to' for the Finger Lakes Region". USD 8.03 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 709] Book number: 1510545 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	KUNANBAY, ALMA; ABAYHAN, AYLIN (TRANSLATOR); SCHAMILOGLU, ULI (TRANSLATOR) The Soul of Kazakhstan Easten Press, 2001. Ex-Library. Large Hardcover. Ill.: Eastep, Wayne (photographs). Good/Good. EX-LIBRARY. Usual library marks. Rear hinge slightly loose (netting visible), front free endpaper removed. 260 pages. A collection of color photographs depicting the landscape and culture of Kazakhstan. "Kazakhstan, also Kazakstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a large country situated in Central Asia and, according to the Council of Europe, Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world as well as the world's largest landlocked country, it has a territory of 2,727,300 kmÂ² (greater than Western Europe). It is bordered by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China. The country also borders on a significant part of the Caspian Sea. Vast in size, the land in Kazakhstan is very diverse in types of terrain: flatlands, steppes, taigas, rock-canyons, hills, deltas, mountains, snow-capped mountains and deserts." -- Wikipedia. USD 20.85 [Appr.: EURO 14 \| £UK 12.75 \| JP¥ 1840] Book number: 1508903 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	LOUX, JOHN & NAOMI Cruising the World in Style: Sea, Sky and Splendor: First Edition Exposition Press, 1976. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'First Edition' stated on copyright page with no additional printings indicated and a $7.00 list price on front dust jacket flap. Minor dust jacket edge wear, dust jacket & pages toned, foxing on book hinges. All Aboard for South America!; Amazing Africa; To the Taj Mahal: India and Sri Lanka; Asian Splendors: From Malaysia to Japan; Aloha: Hawaii and Home. USD 18.70 [Appr.: EURO 12.5 \| £UK 11.25 \| JP¥ 1650] Book number: 069045 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MANRY, ROBERT Tinkerbelle: The Story of the Smallest Boat Ever to Cross the Atlantic Nonstop Harper & Row, 1966. Hard Cover. Ill.: Hearn, Roy C. Very Good/Good. Very good bright copy, map illustrated end papers, in a lightly edge worn dust jacket, pages clean, binding tight. 244 pp. "Robert Manry (June 2, 1918 â€“ February 21, 1971) was a copy editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer who in 1965 sailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts to Falmouth, Cornwall, England in a tiny 13.5 foot (4 m) sailboat (an Old Town "Whitecap" built by the Old Town Canoe Co. of Old Town, Maine, which he had extensively modified for the voyage) named Tinkerbelle. Beginning on June 1, 1965 and ending on August 17, the voyage lasted 78 days. At the time, the Tinkerbelle was the smallest boat to make a non-stop trip across the Atlantic Ocean. Manry later wrote about the voyage and its preparation in his book Tinkerbelle, in which the sailor expressed shock and surprise at the huge crowds and armada of small boats that greeted his arrival in Cornwall. Manry died February 21, 1971 from a heart attack in Union City, Pennsylvania. A small park in Willowick Ohio, the town he lived in before his journey, is named after him. Tinkerbelle is on display at The Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland, Ohio.". USD 7.45 [Appr.: EURO 5 \| £UK 4.5 \| JP¥ 658] Book number: 1515877 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MATTHIESSEN, PETER African Silences Vintage Books, 1992. Trade Paperback. Good. Minor cover edge wear, pages lightly toned. "African Silences is a powerful and sobering account of the cataclysmic depredation of the African landscape and its wildlife. In this critically acclaimed work Peter Matthiessen explores new terrain on a continent he has written about in two previous books, A Tree Where Man Was Born -- nominated for the National Book Award -- and Sand Rivers. Through his eyes we see elephants, white rhinos, gorillas, and other endangered creatures of the wild. We share the drama of the journeys themselves, including a hazardous crossing of the continent in a light plane. And along the way, we learn of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and economies, and threatened by the slow ecological catastrophe to which they have only begun to awaken." CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Prologue; African Silences: Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast (1978); Of Peacocks and Gorilas: Zaire (1978); Pygmies and Pygmy Elephants: The Congo Basin (1986); Epilogue. USD 2.95 [Appr.: EURO 2 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 260] Book number: 057836 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MCAULEY, IAN Guide to Ethnic London Immel Publishing, 1993. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Ink marking on back cover, some minor ink markings on title page, general shelf wear. CONTENTS: Introduction; Chinese London; Asian London; Polish London; Italian London; Jewish London; Irish London; Greek and Turkish London; Black London; Arab London; Bibliography; Index. "A guide to the many faces of London & its ethnic districts. Everything from restaurants and shops to historical walks and festivals.". USD 4.70 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 \| £UK 3 \| JP¥ 415] Book number: 1507758 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MCMURTRY, LARRY Roads: Driving America's Great Highways Simon & Schuster, 2000. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. Binding tight, no page markings, beautiful condition. " I wanted to drive the American roads at the century's end, to look at the country again, from border to border and beach to beach.. "From earliest boyhood the American road has been part of my life -- central to it, I would even say. The ranch house in which I spent my first seven years sits only a mile from highway 281, the long road that traverses the central plains, all the way from Manitoba to the Mexican border at McAllen, Texas. In winter I could hear the trucks crawling up 281 as I went to sleep. In summer I would sit on the front porch with my parents and grandparents, watching the lights of cars as they traveled up and down that road. We were thoroughly landlocked. I had no river to float on, to wonder about. Highway 281 was my river, its hidden reaches a mystery and an enticement. I began my life beside it and I want to drift down the entire length of it before I end this book. "Other than curiosity, there's no particular reason for these travels -- just the old desire to be on the move. My destination is also my route, my motive only an interest in having the nomad in me survive a little longer. I'm not attempting to take the national pulse, or even my own pulse. I doubt that I will be having folksy conversations with people I meet as I travel. Today, in fact, I drove 770 miles, from Duluth, Minnesota, to Wichita, Kansas, speaking only about twenty words: a thank-you at a Quik Stop south of Duluth, where I bought orange juice and doughnuts; a lunch order in Bethany, Missouri; and a request for a room once I got to Wichita.. "I intend to travel mainly on the great roads, the interstates: my routes will be the 10, the 40, the 70, 80, and 90; or if I'm in the mood to go north-south, I will mostly use the 5, the 25, 35, 75. The 95 I intend to ignore. I will, from time to time, switch off the interstates onto smaller roads, but only if they provide useful connectives, or take me to interesting places that the great roads -- whose aim is to move you, not educate you -- don't yet go.. "Three passions have dominated my more than sixty years of mostly happy life: books, women, and the road. As age approaches, the appetite for long drives may leave me, which is why I want to get rolling now.. "The challenge of the solitary traveler is always the same: to find something out there that the reader will enjoy knowing about, or, at least, that the reader can be persuaded to read about. Usually, if there is no one but themselves in the narrative, the great travel writers rely on the extremes to which the environment forces them to produce the interest: Antarctica, and the failure of Scott to beat it, in Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the World or Arabia's Empty Quarter and the ability of the Bedouin to just beat it, in Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands. "I don't think I'm likely to encounter anything so extreme as the snows of Antarctica or the dunes of Arabia along the American interstates. At least I hope not. But I want to drive them anyway..just to see what I see. I merely want to write about the roads as I find them, starting in January of 1999, in Duluth, Minnesota, at the north end of the long and lonesome 35." -- LARRY McMURTRY ". USD 4.70 [Appr.: EURO 3.25 \| £UK 3 \| JP¥ 415] Book number: 1510568 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MCQUILLAN, DAN Ireland Guide: Be a Traveler - Not a Tourist! Open Road Publishing, 2001. Trade Paperback. Good. Cover edge wear & corner creasing, stain to bottom page corners/ridges, general shelf wear. "Most travelers go away for two weeks or less, so why is it that every major travel publisher offers huge books where 90% of the content like the human brain goes unused. Open Road has the solution, the perfect travel guide, because we now offer a choice consumers have not had before: a guide that actually gives readers the content they need for the trip they want! Readers can flip through the book and go to the section that matches how much time they have budgeted, and then go right to that section and see our expert trip ideas. They will also see at a glance which hotels and restaurants are best for them, where the happening nightlife is, the best sports and recreation, and where the most authentic, local shopping can be found. Open Roads Best of Ireland gives readers a small number of great choices and itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week and two-week trips to whatever part of Ireland they are visiting. Only the best of Ireland is included, with great ideas for Dublin, the Blarney Stone, Powerscourt Gardens, Newgrange, Cork, rugged coastal towns, even Belfast and Northern Ireland. Readers will learn about the top medieval castles they can stay in, the best places to shop for sweaters and Claddagh rings, a unique literary pub crawl, and much more! Best of all, we don't weigh readers down with tons of useless information Â¿ we cut to the chase and give readers short descriptions of the best Ireland has to offer.". USD 4.45 [Appr.: EURO 3 \| £UK 2.75 \| JP¥ 393] Book number: 1505735 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MILLAR, GEORGE Isabel and the Sea Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1948. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Nice copy with corner edge wear & stain to boards, bookplate on front end paper. 307 pp. Account of a voyage in a ketch from England to Greece. USD 11.95 [Appr.: EURO 8 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1055] Book number: 1514861 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	LEAST HEAT MOON, WILLIAM (WILLIAM TROGDON) Blue Highways: A Journey Into America Little, Brown and Company, 1999. Trade Paperback. Ill.: Least Heat Moon, William (William Trogdon). Like New. Spine faintly creased. "First published in 1982, William Least Heat-Moon's account of his journey along the back roads of the United States (marked with the color blue on old highway maps) has become something of a classic. When he loses his job and his wife on the same cold February day, he is struck by inspiration: "A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity."Driving cross-country in a van named Ghost Dancing, Heat-Moon (the name the Sioux give to the moon of midsummer nights) meets up with all manner of folk, from a man in Grayville, Illinois, "whose cap told me what fertilizer he used" to Scott Chisholm, "a Canadian citizen .. [who] had lived in this country longer than in Canada and liked the United States but wouldn't admit it for fear of having to pay off bets he made years earlier when he first 'came over' that the U.S. is a place no Canadian could ever love." Accompanied by his photographs, Heat-Moon's literary portraits of ordinary Americans should not be merely read, but savored.". USD 6.13 [Appr.: EURO 4.25 \| £UK 3.75 \| JP¥ 541] Book number: 1510111 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.
	MURDOCH, NINA Tyrolean June: A Summer Holiday in Austrian Tyrol Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1936. Ex-Library. Hard Cover. Ill.: Defner, Adalbert (photographs). Good/No Jacket. EX-LIBRARY. Front hinge just starting, usual library marks, light shelf wear, pages slightly toned. Text clean & unmarked. 280 pages. Black & white photographs. CONTENTS: Phantom Prelude; Summer Day at Pertisau; Of the Achensee and Saint Notburga; Hitler's Tax, a Prince, and Some Old Inns; Medieval Kitzbuhel; On Cheese and Gravy and Pagan Christians; Baroque from a Gothic Window; The Goldene Dachl and Maximilian's Tomb; 'Anno Neun'; At Corpus Christi; The Abbey Where a Giant Fought a Dragon; Enchanted Stubaital; Thiersee's Passion-Play; 'Christus'; The Salt-Mine; Schwaz and the Frundsbergs' Stronghold; Castles into Palaces; Rattenberg; Innsbruck Again; Zillertal and a Mountain Thunderstorm; Good-Bye from Patscherkofel; Index. "Tyrol is a region in Western Central Europe, which included the present day Austrian state of Tyrol (consisting of North Tyrol and East Tyrol), the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/SÃ¼dtirol (South Tyrol) and three communes of the Veneto Italian region (Livinallongo del Col di Lana, Colle Santa Lucia and Cortina d'Ampezzo)." -- Wikipedia. USD 8.95 [Appr.: EURO 6 \| £UK 5.5 \| JP¥ 790] Book number: 1504288 Click here to order or inquire at Yesterday's Muse Books.