Faludi, Susan

In the Darkroom.

William Collins, 2017. Mass Market Paperback, First softback edition. 463pp, a little sun darkened to the foredge. Illustrated softback covers. A very clean, tight copy. The feminist author explores her relationship with the changing story of her estanged father - Alpine mountaineer, Amazon adventurer, holocaust survivor in Budapest, and now living in Hungary after sex reassignment surgery... Fine.

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Book number: 5704

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Memoir, Feminism , Hungary, Holocaust, Sex Reassignment

Fay, Eliot

Lorenzo in Search of the Sun D H Lawrence in Italy Mexico and the American South West.

Vision, 1955. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 148pp, priceclipped yellow dustjacket. Internally very clean. A detailed examination of D H Lawrence's last years of travel in Sicily, Sardinia, Mexico, Italy and France... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 4288

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: D H Lawrence, Biography, Travel,Taormina, Taos, Florence, Oaxaca

Fidlon, David (translator)

Facts About the USSR.

Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1971. First Edition. Soft Cover, 207pp. Text in English, in question and answer format, giving information about the economy and culture of the USSR... Fine.

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Book number: 7656

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Communism, Russia, 5 Year Plan

Finlay, Iain and Sheppard, Trish

South America Overland From New York to Tierra Del Fuego.

Angus & Robertson, 1980. First Edition. Hard Cover, 383pp. Complete dustjacket. Colour photographs. Small decorative stamp and name on flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. From Toronto to Tierra del Fuego by public transport, with the family!.. Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 7889

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel, Adventure, South America

Fisher, Michael

South Devon for the Most Beautiful Holiday Resorts in Great Britain.

Torquay, Michael Fisher, 1951. Hard Cover, Large format. Blue boards with gilt title. Introduction in 8 languages, and b + w photographs of Devon scenes, with period advertisements for hotels etc.A couple of small marks to top edge of boards, otherwise clean. Evocative of the Torquay Agatha Christie would have known... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 13749

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Devon, Resort, Torquay, Agatha Christie

Le Fleming, H M

Cunard White Star Liners of the 1930s.

Ian Allan, 1111. First Edition. Soft Cover, 32pp. Illustrated soft covers. Many b + w illustrations of the ships. A clean copy. The Cunard White Star Line was formed early in 1934, and this booklet contains pictures and accounts of their record breaking passenger liners... Very Good.

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Book number: 17582

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Cunard, Liner, Ship, History, Maritime History, Travel

Flitch, J E Crawford

Mediterranean Moods Footnotes on Travel in the Islands of Mallorca Menorca Ibiza and Sardinia.

Grant Richards, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: G Biasi. Ex-Library, First edition. A heavy book of 323pp. Library binding of dark blue boards and leather spine. Colour frontispiece illustration by G Biasi with tissue guard and b + w photographs. Map. Ex library - stamp to the flyleaf and number to the title page, bookplate to the inner board and occasional light marginal marks. A good 'reading copy' of an account of the places and customs of a vanished world a century ago in the Balearic Islands of Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, and in Sardinia... Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 14844

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel, Ibiza, Sardinia, Menorca, Mallorca, Balearic , History, Spanish History

Folco, Michel and Renaud, Pierre

Maurice Mauritius.

Times Les Editions Du Pacifique, 1986. Hard Cover, Ill.: Folco, Michel. Text in French. 128pp, complete illustrated dustjacket. Many beautiful colour illustrations. Gift inscription to title page, otherwise internally clean. The people, places and wild life of the island of Mauritius... Very Good /Fine.

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Book number: 14384

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Mauritius, Travel, Pacific

Foreman, Russell

Long Pig.

The Book Club, 1960. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover, 238 pp, dustjacket, a little worn to edges. Internally very clean. Includes an account of cannibal practices in Fiji.. Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 835

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Fiji, Cannibal

Forward, Alan

You Have Been Allocated Uganda Letters From A District Officer.

Poyntington Publishing Company, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover, Large format. 170pp. complete illustrated dustjacket. Colour illustrations. Gift inscription signed by the author, otherwise a very clean copy. Written as a series of letters this book describes the author's experience as a District Officer in the British Colonial Service, and as Private Secretary to the Governor, and the political, social and economic development of Uganda in the years up to Independence in 1962.. Signed by Author. Fine /Fine.

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Book number: 14196

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Uganda, british Empire, Colony, Colonial Administration

Fossi, Gloria

The Uffizi Official Guide.

Giunti, 2001. Soft Cover, 159pp, card covers with fold out plans. Many colour photographs. A very clean copy. A guide in English to the treasures of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence... Fine.

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Book number: 5234

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Art Gallery, Renaissance, Italian Art, Firenze, Florence

Frederiksen, Thomas

Eskimo Diary.

Pelham, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Thomas Frederiksen, Mel Poteck. Ex-Library, Translated by Jack Jensen and Val Clery. 148pp, red paper covered boards. Coloured illustrations by the author and calligraphy by Mel Poteck. Maps. Ex library, evidenced only by stamp to back of title page and on flyleaf, no labels or pockets and otherwise clean. Life in Greenland among the hunters... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4455

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Greenland, hunter, eskimo, Mel Poteck, Val Clery, Jack Jensen

Furnas, J C

Anatomy Of Paradise Hawaii and the Islands of the South Seas.

Gollancz, 1950. Hard Cover, 542pp, black cloth covered boards, a little bumped to one corner. Internally clean. The discovery of the South Sea Islands... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 4957

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Hawaii, South Sea Island, Discovery, Travel

Gardner, Brian

The Quest For Timbuctoo.

Readers' Union Cassell, 1969. Hard Cover, 212pp. Orange boards. B + w illustrations. A very clean copy. The story of the travellers who sought for Timbuctoo - Barth, Laing, Mungo Park etc... Fine /No Jacket.

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Book number: 7968

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel, Adventure, Mungo Park, Tuareg, Sahara

Gaunt, Peter

The Cromwellian Gazetteer An Illustrated Guide To Britain in the Civil War and Commonwealth.

Alan Sutton, 1994. Soft Cover, Corrected edition. 242pp, illustrated laminated soft covers. B + w illustrations, maps and family trees. A clean copy. The sites and buildings, county by county, associated with the Parliamentary cause... Fine.

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Book number: 13456

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: History, Civil War, Stuart