Theroux, Paul

Dark Star Safari; Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003. Hardcover. pp. 472. 8vo. Light shelfwear, pencilling throughout, ink and pencil lettering to endpapers; very good-. .

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Book number: 087732

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Theroux, Peter

Translating L.A. ; a Tour of the Rainbow City

New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1995. Paperback. 8vo. Very good+. .

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Book number: 051483

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Thesiger, Wilfred

Arabian Sands

London, Penguin Books, 1987. Paperback. pp. 347. 8vo. Contains sixteen black and white photographic plates. Light shelfwear; very good-. .

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Book number: 069961

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Middle East; Travelogue;

Thomson, Tom [Photography] Forewod by Ashleigh Banfield

Lake of the Woods; a Way of Life

Kenora, ON, Tom Thomson Photography, 2002. Hardcover. pp. 120. Oblong 4to. Faint shelfwear, bookplate taped to front pastedown; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. Signed by the photographer. Ill.: colour photos.

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Book number: 083268

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Whiteshell;Northwest Ontario;;;;;;; colour photos

Dunmore, John (Trans. and ed.)

The Expedition of the St Jean-Baptiste to the Pacific 1769-1770; from the Journals of Jean de Surville and Guillaume Labé

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1981. Hardcover. pp. 310. 8vo. Bound in Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket lightly worn with nicking to edges; very good+ in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085242

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Arasaratnam, Sinnappah (trans. and ed.)

François Valentijn's Description of Ceylon

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1978. Hardcover. pp. 395. 8vo. Bound in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket lightly worn and nicked to edges; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085244

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Hale, J.R. (Trans. and ed.); J.M.A. Lindon (trans.)

The Travel Journal of Antonio de Beatis; Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, France and Italy, 1517-1518

London, The Hakluyt Society, 1979. Hardcover. pp. 206. 8vo. Bound in Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear. Dustjacket lightly worn; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085243

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Trollope, Anthony

The West Indies and the Spanish Main (2 Volumes)

London, Trollope Society, 1994. Hardcover. pp. 395. 8vo. Blue binding with gilt lettering to spine. Both volumes with some wear to edges and bookplates to front pastedowns; otherwise near fine. .

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Book number: 082853

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Turton, M. Conway

Cassiar

Toronto, Macmillan, 1934. Hardcover. pp. 123. 8vo. Bound in black textured cloth with gilt lettering to spine, illustrated endpapers, black and white photographic frontispiece. Light general shelfwear, age-toned edges, spine slightly cocked, pencil name to ffep; very good. .

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Book number: 069468

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

VAMBERY, Arminius

Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand Performed in the Year 1863

London, John Murray, 1864. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xvii, 443. 8vo. Bound in original gilt decorated green cloth. Gilt vignette on front board and gilt lettering and design to spine. This copy contains all twelve plates, and the coloured folding map of Turkestan, which is creased, a few small (repaired) closed tears. The original spine has recently been professionally re-backed and the hinges reinforced. The boards show wear and soiling, but the contents are very tight and clean. A sturdy copy in very good condition. Vambery (1832-1913), an inveterate traveller and philologist, was born in Hungary. He travelled to Constantinople, where he taught French in the house of a minister and, in 1858, published a German-Turkish dictionary. In 1862 he began his trek through central Asia, often travelling in disguise (or, as an 'Efendi' or 'Dervish', as he describes himself in the Preface) in order to enter places forbidden to Westerners, or non-believers. He claimed no geological or astronomical accomplishments, stating that the purpose of his journey was philological; that is, the study of the languages of Central Asia under the conditions, and in the surroundings in which they were actually employed. After publishing this account, he became professor of oriental languages in Budapest, publishing works on Turkish and other Altaic languages, the ethnography of the Turks, the origins of the Magyars, and many other oriental subjects (see Cambridge Bio. Encyc.). Ill.: twelve plates & folding map.

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Book number: 9900021544

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Keywords: Turkey; Iran; Persia; Iraq; Mongols; twelve plates & folding map

Vassanji, M.G.

A Place Within; Rediscovering India

Canada, Doubleday Canada, 2008. Hardback. pp. xvii, 440. 8vo. Bound in brown cloth over yellow boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white maps and photographs. Light shelfwear, ink gift inscription to ffep; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085222

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Vigne, G. T.

Travels in Mexico, South America, Etc. , Etc.

London, Wm. H. Allen & Co, 1863. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 374, 317. 8vo. Complete two volume set bound in publisher's brick-red cloth. Illustrated with, inter alia, two coloured stone lithographed frontispieces; one of the 'Chief of the Chippeways' and the other being a 'Sioux Chief'. The binding of vol. I is worn and soiled, with small pulls to the spine ends. The endpapers are tight, although the binding is sprung. Occasional foxing throughout. Vol. II is bumped but in better condition, with less soiling and the binding being tight. The folding map of South America has been professionally repaired. First published in 1863, re-printed in 1865 and, in modern format, re-printed in 1963 (although WorldCat says 1973). Godfrey Thomas Vigne (1801-1863) attended Harrow and studied law at Lincoln's Inn. He visited the United States in 1831 and published an account of his observations the following year. In the same year he left for India, spending the next seven years travelling throughout Kashmir, Landak, and parts of Central Asia. He published his accounts of these travels in two books (1840 and 1842) which together give a valuable view of northern and western India immediately before the imposition of British control. Commencing in 1852, Vigne visited the West Indies, Mexico, and Nicaragua and passed northwards through New Orleans to New York City. He died in England in July, 1863, whilst completing the manuscript for this book. The publisher's Preface observes that Vigne was neither a professional author nor a commissioned tourist. [He] travelled for his own amusement, saw much, and was assisted in his observations by the possession of some knowledge of science (vol. XX, p. 309). A very scarce title, no complete sets currently being offered for sale, and none having recently come to auction. Ill.: folding map, colored plates.

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Book number: 9900034785

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Nicaragua; Ecuador; Bolivia; Central America; folding map, colored plates

Stefansson, Vilhjalmur and Eloise McCaskill (eds.); Martin Frobisher

The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher (Volumes I and II); in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8. From the Original 1578 Text of George Best Together with Numerous Other Versions, Additions, Etc.

Amsterdam/New York, N. Israel / Da Capo Press, 1971. Hardcover. pp. 166, 293. 4to. Bound in tan leatherette with gilt lettering to spine. Contains maps and illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good+. Originally published by the Argonaut Press, London, 1938. .

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Book number: 083207

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Vollmann, William T.

Riding Toward Everywhere

New York, Harper Collins, 2008. Hardcover. pp. 205. 8vo. General shelfwear, corners bumped. Dustjacket lightly worn and soiled; very good- in very good- dustjacket. .

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Book number: 089347

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Wallis, Helen [ed.]

Carteret's Voyage Round the World / 1766-1769 (Two Volumes)

Cambridge, Printed for the Hakluyt Society at the Cambridge University Press, 1965. Hardcover. pp. xii, 273; vi, 275-564. Bound in sky-blue cloth with lettering and decoration in gilt and blind. Maps and illustrations present as called-for. Light shelfwear, bookplate to ffeps, white ribbon page marker taped to rfeps, contents unmarked, binding sound; very good in good- slightly edgeworn, spotted and sunned dustjackets, with clear tape affixed to spines, creasing, two short and one 1" closed tear to volume II. Works issued by The Hakluyt Society, Second Series, Part 2, No. 124 & 125. "Derived from the abstract retained by Philip Carteret after his voyage and the journal he compiled from it and other papers in about 1773..A collection of documents, 1756-1811, relating to the preparations, to the voyage itself, and to its aftermath. .

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Book number: 069004

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration