FRASER JOHN FOSTER

Round the World on a Wheel

London, Chatto & Windus. 1982, reprint. (ISBN: 0701126094) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. price clipped DW under plastic sleeve, name and address to fep, faint spotting to closed edges, prelims + 325pp, illustrated in the text, abridged edition, a Victorian chap bicycling around the world. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010431

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Cycling Around the World Trip Travel John Foster Fraser 0701126094

YOUNGHUSBAND FRANCIS

Epic of Mount Everest

London, Edward Arnold. 1928, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 5th printing spine joints rubbed with small splits at the ends, a few white paint specks to lower board. 319pp + plates, some minor foxing.a condensed narrative of the three expeditions described in 'Mount Everest the reconnaissance '1921 'The Assault on Mount Everest' 1922 and 'The Fight for Everest' 1924. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000611

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Everest Himalaya Tibet Nepal Younghusband

YOUNGHUSBAND FRANCIS

Epic of Mount Everest

London, Edward Arnold. 1928, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 5th printing, 319pp + plates, some minor foxing to closed edges, a condensed narrative of the three expeditions described in 'Mount Everest the reconnaissance '1921 'The Assault on Mount Everest' 1922 and 'The Fight for Everest' 1924. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011661

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Everest Himalaya Tibet Nepal Younghusband

YOUNGHUSBAND FRANCIS

The Heart of a Continent

London, John Murray. 1937, revised. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. newly revised edition, inscr to fep otherwise VG and clean, corners lightly bruised, top edgte dusted green, xvi 246pp + 2pp adverts, frontis 3 plates and folding map, slight foxing Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of his journey from Peking to India by way of the Gobi Desert and Chinese Turkestan, and across thge Himalaya by the Mustagh Pass. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002042

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel Exploration Middle East Turkestan Himalaya British Empire Gobi Desert Mustagh Pass Younghusband Revised

HALL CAPTAIN CHARLES FRANCIS

Life with the Esquimaux, a Narrative of Arctic Experience in Search of Survivors of Sir John Franklin's Expedition

Edmonton, M. G. Hurtig. 1970, New edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. unclipped DW has some closed tears and rubbing but reasonably tidy, red cloth, seems to be in part a facsimile but with a new introduction by George Swinton, xxvi 547pp + folding map, col. frontis and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 008522

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Arctic Exploration Adventure Eskimo Esuimaux Canada

BRENTON FRANCIS

Long Sail to Haiti

London, Heinemann. 1965, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. excellent copy in a complete DW with short tear at the top edge 20mm down, small split lower corner, light rubbing head of spine, 179pp + frontis, map endpapers, a man's single-handed Atlantic crossing that ended in a Haitian dictator's gaol. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002039

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Nautical Sailing Yachting Sea Atlantic Crossing Solo Haiti

YOUNGHUSBAND FRANCIS

Wonders of the Himalaya

London, John Murray. 1924, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. blue cloth lacks dust jacket, bookplate to fep as well as ink name dated 1924, minor foxing to prelims and closed edges, small brown patch to corner of fep, 210pp + adverts + frontis and map, spine leans, light edge wear, Bookplate with penned name Adair Algie, one of the first ascenders of Mt Ronald Adair in the Mt Cook alpine region, New Zealand. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 011299

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Himalaya Mountaineering Asia Himalaya Kashmir Hunza K2 Mountaineering Travel Central Asia

DEBENHAM FRANK

Antarctica the story of a continent

London, Herbert Jenkins. 1959, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. blue cloth rubbed edges.map endpapers. 264pp + plates. pp21-36 has a small bit of damage to the bottom edge margin where the page has been dented at bottom edge with short tear (minor). DW rubbed to edges, price-clipped. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000436

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Antarctic South Pole Polar Antarctica Exploration

TREVES FREDERICK

The Riviera of the Corniche Road

London, Cassell. 1921, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Frederick Treves. slate gry cloth boards with blue cloth spine, titling in gilt, light edge rubbing light handling soiling, minor foxing to closed edges, copperplate ink name to fep dated 1921, blind impressed bookseller stamp to fep, xi 316pp + plates with tissue giards, the French Riviera between Nice and Mentone. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008633

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: France French Riviera the Great Corniche Road Travel Twentieth Century Travel Writing Illustrted Mediterranean Coast Frederick Treves

O'BRIEN FREDERICK

White Shadows in the South Seas

London, Hodder. First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. unclipped dust jacket browned to spine, minor edge wear, rather nice still, small ink name and date to half title date is 30-6-32, no publisher date (1919 first edition?), 317pp + sepia plates, foxed closed edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 011721

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel Exploration Marquesa Marquesas Marquesan Islands Early Twentieth Century Anthropology South Seas Islands

STARK FREYA

The Coast of Incense, autobiography 1933-1939

London, John Murray. 1953, First Edition. Original Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 287pp untrimmed edges, green cloth buckram has slight discolouration via rubbing , front hinge cracked, front endpaper lightly creased.b+w photos, tipped in map on green paper, fore edges slightly foxed. Freya's journeys in Iraq, Greece and Syria and the Hadhramaut. taken from her journals. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 000017

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Arabia Hadhramaut Greece Syria Travel Exploration

STARK FREYA

Perseus in the Wind

London, John Murray. 1955, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Reynoldes Stone. (500 gram rate) third printing, name and date at head of fep, VG book tidy, DW price clipped VG minor edge rubbing. 169pp woodcuts by Reynoldes Stone. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 001667

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel Religion Memoirs Reynoldes Stone

STARK FREYA

Perseus in the Wind

London, John Murray. 1948, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Reynoldes Stone. (500 gram rate) VG book tidy, DW price clipped with some large chips with loss to foot of front panel and head and tail of backstrip, 169pp woodcuts by Reynoldes Stone, top corner of closed page edges minor stain, shows only to closed edges when book is closed. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 008502

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel Religion Memoirs Reynoldes Stone

MUHLENWEG FRITZ

Big Tiger and Christian, their adventures in Mongolia

London, Cape. 1954, First Edition. Decorative Boards, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Rafaello Busoni. decorative papered boards, unclipped dust jacket lightly worn at corners, handling soiling, faint ghost of marker price to top left corner, 558pp, First UK edition, English Translation by Isabel and Florence MacHugh, introduction by Peter Fleming. A story of the caravan journey of a Chinese boy and a Christian from Peking across Mongolian desert, becoming involved in 1920s Chinese civil war. Written by someone who had experience of the area and the route described. In text illustrations in line. 2 page map. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005089

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Mongolia Travel Exploration Juvenile Busoni Illustrated Rafaello Busoni

KOLB FRITZ

Himalaya Venture ( Proof Copy )

London, Lutterworth Press. 1959, First Edition. Original Wraps, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Galley/Proof, (500 gram rate) Proof copy in plain paper wrapper over sewn collations, cover has PROOF and a pasted typed label giving publication details etc, DW unclipped but with rubbing wear and chipping loss at spine ends, some short splits to fold and edges, 148pp + plates, a few pencil notes to text noting where pagination has been incorrectly bound, so giving correct page to turn to. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 010171

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Mountaineering Mountain Climbing Alps Himalayan Himalaya Fritz Kolb English Translation Proof Copy with Dust Wrapper Einzelgaenger IM Himalaya