Roden Claudia

Mediterranean Cookery.

BBC, 1989. Soft Cover, 336pp, colour illustrated card covers a little rubbed to the corners. Colour illustrations. Internally clean and tight. A book which has become a classic - recipes for traditional home cooking from the mediterranean area, originally written to accompany a BBC TV series... Very Good.

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Book number: 14450

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Cookery, Recipe, Mediterranean, Food, BBC, TV

Cook, Hartley Kemball

Over The Hills And far Away Three Centuries of Holidays.

Allen & Unwin and The Right Book Club, 1949. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 263pp, blue cloth covered boards. Endpapers in purple and yellow by Edward Ardizzone. B + w illustrations. Light spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. 3 centuries of holidays... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 6414

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Ardizzone

Crabtree, Harold and Clarke, Mike

Railway on the Water Tom Puddings and the Yorkshire Coal Industry.

Sobriety Project, 1993. First Edition. Soft Cover, 112pp, illustrated soft covers. B + w illustrations. A new, unread, copy. The history of the transport of coal on the Aire & Calder canal to Goole, and the development of the Tom Pudding compartment boat... As New.

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Book number: 12729

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Canal, Coal, Yorkshire, Container, Aire, Goole

Crawford, Francis Marion

Gleanings from Venetian History.

Macmillan, 1907. Hard Cover, Ill.: Joseph Pennell. First one-volume edition. A heavy book of 833pp with red cloth covered boards, a little worn to the edge of the spine. Gilt top edge and title. B + w illustrations. Previous owner's name and venetian bookseller's label to flyleaf, otherwise internally clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 14469

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Venice, Venetian History, Italy

Danielsson, Bengt

What Happened On The Bounty?.

Readers Union Allen & Unwin, 1963. Hard Cover, Translated by Alan Tapsell. 221pp and map. Green boards with silver decorative motif, complete dustjacket, a little rubbed to ends of spine. B + w frontispiece portrait of Captain Bligh. The story of the Mutiny on the ship 'Bounty'... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 6589

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Pitcairn, Bligh, South Sea, Mutiny, Adventure

Davies, Hunter

Lakeland A Personal Journey.

Head of Zeus, 2020. Soft Cover, 324pp. Blue and gold softback covers with one light crease to the spine. Map and b + w photographs. A clean, tight copy. An affectionate tour of the the history, traditions and places of the Lake District... Very Good.

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Book number: 6684

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Lake District, walk, Ramble, Wordsworth, Lake Poets, Cumbria, History

Davies, Hunter

A Walk Around the Lakes.

Arrow, 1989. Mass Market Paperback, Revised edition. 339pp, the edges browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers. B + w photographs and maps. A couple of small spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean and tight. A readable book on the Lake District. its places and its poets... Very Good.

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Book number: 8979

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Lake District, Wordsworth, Cumbria

Debraye, Henry

Touraine And Its Chateaux.

Medici Society, 1926. Hard Cover, 156pp, green cloth covered boards. Sepia illustrations. Map. Internally clean. One of the 'Picture Guides' series, to the area of Tours and the Chateaux of the Loire, including Blois... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4157

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Blois, Loire, Tours

Delicostopoulos, Dr Athanasios

Greek Idioms Ellenikoi Idiomatismoi Eis Ta Aggliko.

Efsthianidis, 2001. First Edition. Soft Cover, 270. Softback covers designed by Mike Cornford. B + w photographs. A little wrinkling to the top corner of the first few pages, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. Greek words, with English translations, and how they can be used in idiomatic expressions... Very Good.

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Book number: 12972

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Modern Greek, Idiom, Language Learning

Demesse, Lucien

Quest For The Babingas.

The Adventurers Club, 1958. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 187 pp, green boards. B + w photographs. a couple of spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise internally clean. The search for the world's most primitive tribe... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 723

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: africa, Tribe

Dicks, Brian

The Greek Islands.

Hale, 1986. First Edition. Hard Cover, 319pp, complete dustjacket with one short closed tear to edge. Many colour and b + w photographs and maps. History, descriptions, and advice to travellers to the Greek islands... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 4508

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: cyclades, sporades, crete

Dodson, James

Faithful Travellers.

Century, 1998. First Edition. Hard Cover, 279pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. A very clean copy. A journey across America... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 2926

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: travel

Douglas, Hugh

Portrait of the Burns Country and Galloway.

Robert Hale, 1975. Hard Cover, Ill.: Iain Coates. Third edition, revised. 190pp. Priceclipped illustrated dustjacket with a little wear to the top of the spine and lacking some of the lamination to the front top edge. Map. B + w photographs by Iain Coates. Internally clean. A description of Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire where Robert Burns lived, and also including Galloway to give a complete picture of this part of South West Scotland... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 13944

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Robert Burns, Travel, Scotland, Ayrshire, Dumfriesshire

Downes, Kerry

The Georgian Cities Of Britain.

Phaidon, 1979. First Edition. 64pp, complete dustjacket. Colour and b + w photographs. A very clean copy. Examines how far the eighteenth century city owed to artistic achievement... Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 4318

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Enlightenment, architecture

Duff Gordon, Lucie

Letters From Egypt.

Virago, 1983. Mass Market Paperback, Reprint of the 1902 edition, with a Memoir by the author's daughter and a new Introduction by Sarah Searight. 383pp, the paper browning a little with age, illustrated softback covers with a couple of light creases to corners. B + w illustrations. Internally clean. 7 years in Egypt 1862 -69.. Very Good.

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Book number: 9027

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Egypt, Travel, Luxor, Customs