Shipton, Eric,

UPON THAT MOUNTAIN.

Readers Union, London, 1945, club edn., 248pp, 30pp half tone photo ills and 1 plate, 4 maps in text, grey cloth lettered in red at spine, an autobiographical account of the British mountaineer's climbs in the Alps, Kenya, the Himalayas, Karakoram, etc., with anecdotes and reminiscences, sl. cocked, a little rubbed and lightly bumped at extrems., upper and fore-edges foxed, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 28501

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: travel nepal switzerland france himalaya kenya alps climbing mountain mountaineering karakoram

Sitwell, Osbert,

THE FOUR CONTINENTS - Being More Discursions on Travel, Art and Life.

Readers Union, London, 1955, club edn., [viii], 246pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, travels in Europe, Asia, Africa and Ameirca with reflections, digressions and comment, cocked, bumped at extrems., upper edge sl. dusty, dustwrapper lightly rubbed at extrems. and a little creased, good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 30676

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: travel italy china america africa

Smythe, Frank S.,

CLIMBS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES.

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1950, 1st edn., 260pp, frontis and 1 other col'd plate, 32pp half tone photo ills., maps and diagrams in text, blue cloth gilt, rubbed at extrems., several light marks on cloth, prelims and eps lightly foxed, edges a little grubby, some fox marks at edges and in margins, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 18043

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: travel exploration canada mountaineering

Svoray, Yaron and Taylor, Nick (intro. by Simon Wiesenthal),

IN HITLER'S SHADOW - An Israeli's journey Inside Germany's neo-Nazi movement.

Constable, London, 1995, 1st edn., xii, 275pp, 8pp half tone photo ills. in text map, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, account of an investigation into the threat posed by Germany's neo-Nazi movement and a portrayal of the personalities behind it, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good plus in a very good plus dustwrapper,

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Book number: 35998

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: germany neo-nazi hitler

Unwin, John,

THE DEFEAT OF JOHN HAWKINS - A Biography of His Third Slaving Voyage.

Readers Union, London, 1961, club edn., 319pp, 8pp half tone ills., 2 line ills. and 3 maps in text, black cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in silver at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the merchant adventurer John Hawkin's expedition of 1567-8 to West Africa and the Caribbean, a little rubbed and bumped at extrems., top edge browned and a little foxed, dustwrapper: rubbed at extrems., with sl. loss at spine ends and cnrs., several short closed edge tears, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28136

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: history maritime treasure spain west africa slave trade slaving caribbean merchant adventurer

Willings, Heather,

A VILLAGE IN THE CEVENNES.

Victor Gollancz, London, 1979, 1st edn., 186pp, [ii] blank, 12pp half tone photo ills., green cloth lattered in gilt at spine, col'd photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the way of life of a village in the remote Cevennes region towards the South of France, the history and of the ancient and rural traditions that still survive, light bump lower cnr. upper board and lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, sl. sunned at spine, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 32478

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: travel topography france

Willison, George F.,

HERE THEY DUG THE GOLD.

Readers Union, London, 1952, club edn., x, 237pp, frotis and 4pp half tone ills., maps at endpapers, cream cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, an account of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush in Colorado, 1859, lightly bumped at lower tips, upper edge sl. dusty, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems. with several short nicks and sl. loss at spine ends and tips, spine sl. sunned, very good in a good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 28959

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: usa history colorado gold rush pikes peak

Woolley, Sir Leonard,

UR The First Phases - King Penguin Series #25.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1946, 1st edn., 40pp, 16pp col'd plates, col'd decorated paper covered boards, account of the results of the excavation of the 2000BC city of Babylonia in present day Iraq, lightly rubbed at extrems., sl. sunning at spine, edges lightly foxed, small chip fore-edge each free endpaper adhering to respective pastedowns, pastedowns sl. rippled, no dustwrapper, good plus,

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Book number: 18074

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: ur babylon iraq archaeology excavation ancient civilization stone-age king penguin

Woolley, Sir Leonard,

UR The First Phases - King Penguin Series #25.

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1946, 1st edn., 40pp, 16pp col'd plates, col'd decorated paper covered boards, account of the results of the excavation of the 2000BC city of Babylonia in present day Iraq, lightly rubbed at extrems., small old ink price upper board, light overall soiling, edges lightly foxed, pastedowns sl. rippled, ink name/date front free endpaper, no dustwrapper, good,

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Book number: 18075

Catalogue: Travel and Exploration

Keywords: ur babylon iraq archaeology excavation ancient civilization stone-age king penguin