Hofer, R.; Hofer, E.

Aegean, Nature and Hiking for Island Hoppers

Mediterraneo Editions 2012 204, col photos, maps. 215x120mm. PB. NEW. . The Aegean – the island world of the Greeks – is a source of particular fascination: sun and sea, natural environment and culture, entertainment and Greek hospitality. Over the last few years the number of people who go hiking on the Aegean islands has grown steadily. Kalderimia and Monopatia are increasingly being designated as hiking paths and the volume of literature about them is increasing. A hiking holiday in the Aegean is particularly attractive when it involves ‘island-hopping’; this offers the opportunity to get to know the islands, each of them stamped with its own unique character, and to enjoy their infinite variety. This roaming lifestyle is the subject of “Aegean – Nature and hiking for island-hoppers”, which describes a total of 48 selected routes on 16 Aegean islands. The main purpose of this book is to draw the attention to the diversity of plants and animals. The biodiversity of the Aegean islands is particularly rich: circum-mediterranean representatives meet with species which originate from the Balkans and the Near East, and their number is further enhanced through numerous endemic species which developed in isolation after the Ice Age. However, only a small fraction of the several thousands of these species can be introduced through illustrations and notes. Ecological cohesions in typical Mediterranean habitats, the interesting behaviour of animals, the importance of some plants for Man, and traces of old agricultural practices constitute the reading material for a holiday of discovery, hiking or walking through the natural landscape. [9789606848513]

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N° du livre: N28295

Catalogue: Travel & Local Natural History,Travel & Local Natural History

Mots-clés: Europe; Southern Europe; Greece; Natural History

Hope, G.S.; Peterson, J.A.; Radok, U.; Allison, I. (Eds)

The Equatorial Glaciers of New Guinea

A.A. Balkema 1976 xii, 244, b/w photos, text figs, 3 folding maps in rear pocket. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt. Vg in d/w (slight fading to spine and top edge of rear panel). From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his name to endpaper.. Results of the 1971-1973 Australian Universities' Expeditions to Irian Jaya: Survey, Glaciology, Meteorology, Biology and Palaeoenvirnoments. This book presents the final results of the glaciology, meteorology, geomorphology and biology that have resulted from two multi-disciplinary scientific expedtions to the Jaya mountains (Carstensz mountains) of Irian Jaya (West Irian). [9789061910121]

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N° du livre: S40890

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Scientific Exploration

Mots-clés: Glaciology; New Guinea; Melanesia; Pacific

Hopkinson, J. (Ed)

Transactions of the Herfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club. Vol. I

David Bogue 1882 viii, 1-264, 4, 265-272, ix-lxviii, 12, 2, 12, 2 plain plates, 1 folding table, 1 folding map, text figs. . HB. 8vo, half leather, pebbled cloth boards, rubbed and slightly scuffed, raised bands and leather title pieces to spine. Occasional foxing. Vg.. October 1879 to July 1881..

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N° du livre: P34960

Catalogue: Travel & Local Natural History,Travel & Local Natural History

Mots-clés: Hertfordshire; England; Britain; Natural History; Periodical

Howells, Roscoe

Cliffs of Freedom: The story of Skomer Island, and of Reuben Codd, the last man to farm it

Gomerian Press 1961 155, b/w frontis, 28 b/w photos, endpaper maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. bds. Occasional foxing. Vg in d/w (some edge wear; light stain to bottom corner of rear panel).. First edition. Situated off the west coast of Pembrokeshire Skomer is famous now as a bird sanctuary but this book traces the history of those who lived and worked there since the time of the Ancient Britons..

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N° du livre: S54028

Catalogue: Travel & Local Natural History,Travel & Local Natural History

Mots-clés: Pembrokeshire; Wales; Britain; Sea Birds; Skomer

Hudson, W.H.

The Naturalist in La Plata

Dent 1939 x, 394, b/w frontis, 5 b/w plates, text illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg.. Reprint of the 1929 edition. Illustrated by J. Smit. A nature classic, providing an unusual perspective on treeless grasslands of Argentina..

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N° du livre: S41267

Catalogue: Travel & Local Natural History,Travel & Local Natural History

Mots-clés: Argentina; South America; America; Natural History

Hulbert, C.

Museum Americanum; or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties and Varieties of Nature and Art in America

Privately published 1823 i-iv, 5-346, frontis, additional engraved title, 2 engraved plates, 2 portraits. . HB. 12mo, orig. cloth, gt. Book-plate of Joseph Crowther to endpaper; old water stain to corner of frontis.. Charles Hulbert (1778–1857) was an English author, historian, publisher, bookseller, printer and stationer..

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N° du livre: A18487

Catalogue: Travel & Local Natural History,Travel & Local Natural History

Mots-clés: ABABOOKFAIR; C2199; North America; Travel

Huntford, R. (Ed.); Summers, J.; Rowley, D.

The Shackleton Voyages: A Pictorial Anthology of the Polar Explorer and Edwardian Hero

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2002 288, col + b/w photos, maps. 300x270mm. HB. Vg in d/w.. . [9780297843160]

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N° du livre: S38989

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Polar Exploration

Huxley, Elspeth

East Africa

William Collins 1941 48, 12 col plates, 17 b/w photos, 1 map. . HB. Binding cracked in several places, one page becoming detached; gift inscription to half-title. Good in d/w (price clipped, foxed and worn at spine).. .

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N° du livre: S44069

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Kenya; East Africa; Africa

Huxley, Elspeth

Forks and Hope: An African Notebook

Chatto & Windus 1964 xi, 272, b/w illus to text. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, faded to head and foot of spine. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg in d/w (some edge wear; in removable protective sleeve).. First edition. Illustrations by Jonathan Kingdom. Early in 1963, Elspeth Huxley spent three months in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda, this is a record of her travels through game game parks, meetings with political leaders and seeing Kenya's 'white highlands' broken up into small holdings for Africans..

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N° du livre: S57652

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: East Africa; Travel Narrative

Huxley, T.H.; Huxley J. (Ed.)

T.H. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake

Chatto & Windus 1935 viii, 372, col frontis, 12 b/w plates, 1 map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, corners bumped, spine faded. Previous owners' names deleted from endpaper.. Edited from the unpublished ms by Julian Huxley..

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N° du livre: S44289

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Scientific Exploration

Mots-clés: Huxley

Huxley, Elspeth

Sorcerer's Apprentice: a Journey through Africa

Chatto & Windus 1948 xviii, 366, 32 plates, folding map.. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, fading to spine, light stain to foot of spine. Vg.. .

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N° du livre: S42844

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Africa

Huxley, Juliette

Wild Lives of Africa

Collins 1963 255, b/w photos, map. . HB. Vg in worn/torn d/w (d/w in clear, removable protective sleeve). Light spotting to top edge. Owner's name to endpaper.. Introduction and Postscript by Julian Huxley. Lady Huxley's account of a journey through South, East and Central Africa. Illustrated with author's and Sir Julian's photographs..

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N° du livre: S42834

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Africa; Natural History

Ingrams, Harold

Arabia and the Isles

John Murray 1943 xv, 367, frontis, 30 b/w plates, 2 folding maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gilt title to spine. Some minor browning to endpapers, folding maps lightly foxed. Owner's name to endpaper. Vg in worn and torn d/w (some loss to spine/corners; edges reinforced with tape to rear; in removable protective sleeve).. Second impression (first published 1942). With Foreword by Lt.-Col. Sir Bernard Reilly, Governor of Aden, 1937-1940. William Harold Ingrams (1897-1973), was a British colonial administrator best known for his time in the Aden Protectorate as administrator of the Hadhramaut region, where he oversaw a truce between feuding tribes known as 'Ingram's Peace'..

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N° du livre: S57729

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Arabian Peninsula; Indian Ocean; Travel Narrative

Jacobsen, N.H.G.

Guide to the Trees & Shrubs and Other Wildlife of Vienna Private Nature Reserve

Chalkham Hill Press 1997 112, text figs, maps. . PB. Vg.. A guide to Vienna P.N.R., a reserve in a Transvaal Lowveld farm, South Africa.. [9780620217675]

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N° du livre: S30582

Catalogue: Travel & Local Natural History,Travel & Local Natural History

Mots-clés: South Africa; Southern Africa; Africa

James, D.

Scott of the Antarctic: the film and its production

Convoy Publications 1948 151, b/w photos, 3 maps. . HB. Vg in d/w (a few tears with minor loss).. Introduction by John Mills..

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N° du livre: S40386

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Polar Exploration