Busk, D.

The Fountain of the Sun: Unfinished Journeys in Ethiopia and the Ruwenzori

Max Parrish 1957 240, . . HB. Large 8vo (222x170mm), orig. cloth, spine faded. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate.. Accounts of travels in Ethiopia and the Ruwenzori Mountains..

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N° du livre: S54164

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Ethiopia

Buxton, J.; Lockley, R.M. (Eds)

Island of Skomer: A Preliminary Survey of the Natural History of Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire undertaken for the West Wales Field Society

Staples Press 1950 164, frontis, b/w plates, 3 folding maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Vg.. 1st edition. Frontispiece by C.F. Tunnicliffe..

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N° du livre: S54092

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

Mots-clés: Island Natural History; Skomer; Pembrokeshire; Wales; Britain

Buxton, D.

Travels in Ethiopia

Lindsay Drummond 1949 200, b/w frontis, 141 b/w plates, map. . HB. Vg in d/w (spine slightly darkened).. First edition. While conducting research on locusts, David Buxton, the son of the late Charles Roden Buston, M.P., travelled widely in Ethiopia and visited many parts of the country not previously seen by Europeans. These adventurous journeys rank with the travels of the great explorers of the past. He is a keen observer and naturalist and his book is full of stories and information about the people and their customs, as well as on the birds, animals and plants of the country. The author also made a study of the old rock-hewn churches, probably among the oldest Christian churches in the world. Illustrated with photographs by the author..

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N° du livre: S44066

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Ethiopia; East Africa; Africa; Travel Narrative

Buxton, D.

Travels in Ethiopia

Lindsay Drummond 1949 200, b/w frontis, 141 b/w photos, map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, lightly rubbed. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate.. First edition. While conducting research on locusts, David Buxton, the son of the late Charles Roden Buston, M.P., travelled widely in Ethiopia and visited many parts of the country not previously seen by Europeans. These adventurous journeys rank with the travels of the great explorers of the past. He is a keen observer and naturalist and his book is full of stories and information about the people and their customs, as well as on the birds, animals and plants of the country. The author also made a study of the old rock-hewn churches, probably among the oldest Christian churches in the world. Illustrated with photographs by the author..

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N° du livre: S54521

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Ethiopia; East Africa; Africa; Travel Narrative

Buxton, D.

Travels in Ethiopia

Ernest Benn 1951 200, b/w frontis, 141 b/w photos, map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, minor wear. Good. Name to endpaper.. Reprint (first publised 1949). While conducting research on locusts, David Buxton, travelled widely in Ethiopia and visited many parts of the country not previously seen by Europeans. These adventurous journeys rank with the travels of the great explorers of the past. A keen observer and naturalist and his book is full of stories and information about the people and their customs, as well as on the birds, animals and plants of the country. The author also made a study of the old rock-hewn churches, probably among the oldest Christian churches in the world. Illustrated with photographs by the author..

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N° du livre: S57512

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Ethiopia; East Africa; Africa; Travel Narrative

Cable, M.; French, F.

The Gobi Desert

Hodder & Stoughton 1944 303, col frontis, numberous b/w photos, 2 maps (1 folding). . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine faded, gt. Good.. Reprint. First published 1942. Classic work by two missionaries, Alice Mildred Cable (1878-1952) and Francesca Law French (1871-1960) were a British Protestant Christian missionaries in China, serving with the China Inland Mission. They travelled extensively, traversing the Gobi desert five times..

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N° du livre: S54170

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Gobi Desert

Cabot, D.

Ireland(New Naturalist 84 )

Collins 1999 512, 8 col plates, +230b/w photos and line drawings. . PB. Vg with minor fading to the spine.. . [9780002200806]

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N° du livre: S28669

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

Mots-clés: Ireland; Local Natural History; New Naturalist Series

Campbell, Lord George

Log Letters from "The Challenger"

MacMillan and Co. 1876 viii, 448, folding col map. 8vo. HB. Orig. cloth, rubbed/worn to spine ends + corners; joints rubbed, front joint splitting at foot; mark/scuff to front cover. Some light foxing. One gathering loose.. .

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N° du livre: S19805

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

Mots-clés: C3017; H.M.S. Challenger; Travel

Caputo, R.

Ethiopia: Revolution in an Ancient Empire

1983 31, . . PB. Stapled.. Article from National Geographic, May 1983. pp 614-644..

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N° du livre: S55357

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Carr, A.

High Jungles and Low

University of Florida Press 1953 xvi, 226, b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, orig cloth, gift inscription to half-title page. From the library of Prof. J. Green (1928-2016) with his signature to endpaper.. Illustrations by Lee Adams. Memoir of travels in Honduras and Nicaragua by the American herpetologist, ecologist and pioneering conservationist Archie Fairly Carr, Jr.(1909-1987). He was Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida and a leading expert on turtles..

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N° du livre: S43250

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Honduras; Central America; America; Nicaragua; Central America; America

Chapman, S.

Lhasa: The Holy City

Readers Union 1940 xii, 4 col plates, b/w photos, folding map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine slightly dulled, one corner bumped. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), with his bookplate. Also includes two collectable Tibetan 100 Srang bank notes used between 1939-1959.. In 1936, the British Government sent a mission to Lhasa, Tibet, under Mr. B. J. Gould. Spencer Chapman went as his private secretary. They remained in Lhasa until 17th February 1937, and those months are described vividly here. Together with his photographs, the account casts a fascinating light on Tibet..

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N° du livre: S54165

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: PBFA; Tibet; Asia

Chapman, A.

Wild Norway: with Chapters on Spitzbergen, Denmark, Etc.

Edward Arnold 1897 xiii, 358, [2 - ads] + 16 - ads, frontis, 15 b/w plates, text illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, light bump to top corner of front board; a few nicks to foot of spine, with short tear neatly refixed, nevertheless an attractive copy with protective acetate sleeve.. First edition. Illustrations by the author, assisted by Chas. Whymper and P. Ch. Trench. Includes chapters on salmon fishing, elk-hunting, etc..

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N° du livre: A46854

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Fishing; Hunting; Norway; Scandinavia; Northern Europe; Europe; Travel

Cheesman, R.E.

Lake Tana & the Blue Nile: An Abyssinian Quest

MacMillan and Co. 1936 xiv, 400, folding frontis, 24 b/w plates, text fig, 2 folding maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. green cloth (spine slightly faded), gilt vignette to front board, gilt title to spine, top edge tinted green. Ownership inscription and blind stamp to half-title. Vg.. First edition. An account of the author's expeditions around Lake Tana and the source of the Blue Nile, in Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) during his time as British consul for north-west Ethiopia between 1925 and 1934. Major Robert E. Cheesman (1878-1962) was an English military officer, explorer, ornithologist and author. He was the brother of Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969), entomologist, author and traveller..

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N° du livre: S57677

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Ethiopia; East Africa; Africa; Travel Narrative

Cheke, A.; Hume, J.

Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion & Rodrigues

Poyser 2008 464, 16 col plates, text figs. . HB. Fine in d/w - almost as new.. First edition. Following discovery of the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean in the 1500s and their subsequent colonisation by man, rapid ecological change lead to the extinction of many of the islands unique vertebrates, including the Dodo . This book provides the first full ecological history of the Mascarene Islands as well as the specific story of each extinct vertebrate. Illustrated with Julian Hume's superb colour illustrations.. [9780713665444]

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N° du livre: S58472

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

Mots-clés: Dodo; Ecology; Extinction; Mascarene Islands; Indian Ocean

Clark, J. Desmond

The Victoria Falls: A Handbook to the Victoria Falls, the Batoka Gorge, and part of the upper Zambesi River

Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics 1952 160, col frontis, 4 col plates, 33 b/w plates, text figs. . PB. 8vo, orig, wrappers with colour illustration (worn with some loss to edge) laid down to front cover; some wear to spine with loss to head. Good.. First edition. Errata slip tipped in at front..

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N° du livre: S57601

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration,Travel

Mots-clés: Rhodesia; Zambesi River; Zambia; Southern Africa; Africa