FREUCHEN PETER

Ice Floes and Flaming Water, a True Adventure in Melville Bay

London, Victor Gollancz. 1955, First Edition. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. price clipped DW has faded losing the pale blue and now appearing as white, red and black titling still strong, edges rubbed with light chipping to spine ends and top edge, small scuff to the photo portrait on front panel, book fep clipped at top corner, rubber stamp to fep, 251pp + frontis. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004790

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Arctic Melville Bay Eskimo Thule Whales Whaling Inuit North Atlantic Arctic Ocen Polar North Pole

FLEMING PETER

News from Tartary, A Journey from Peking to Kashmir

London, Cape. 1937, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. maroon cloth with gilt title and decoration, red dusted top edge has marker name to closed edge, FITZSIMMONS rubber name stamp to fep and title page, otherwise a very tidy copy of the ninth impression of the first edition, 384pp + plates and large folding map. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 008607

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Asia Asian Travel Writing China Kashmir Central Asia Ian Fleming British Traavel Writing Exploration

MULGREW PETER

No place for men

Wellington, Reed. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW complete but with splits / tears to the corners and light chipping to spine ends and folds with some associated crease marks, spine titling is white, BOOK is tidy. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004879

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Mountaineering Climbing Himalaya Makalu Abominable Snowman Yeti Edmund Hillary Frostbite Amputee

MULGREW PETER

No place for men

Wellington, Reed. 1964, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. dust jacket complete but with rubbed and chipped corners and chipping loss to head of spine, split along ends of fore edge folds, spine titling is fading to white, BOOK is tidy. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 006983

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Mountaineering Climbing Himalaya Makalu Abominable Snowman Yeti Edmund Hillary Frostbite Amputee

HILLARY PETER

Rimo Mountain on the Silk Road

London, Hodder. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340405392) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. near fine in same unclipped DW, 176pp + colour plates, Edmund Hillary's son Peter travels the silk road in the high Karakoram, an attempt was made on Rimo but had to be abandoned just below the summit due to bad weather and avalanches, good look at life on the India - Pakistan central asian border, travel and mountaineering. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 003205

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Asia Karakoram Range Mountaineering Silk Road Hillary Peter Edmund 0340405392

HILLARY PETER

A Sunny Day in the Himalayas

Auckland, Hodder. 1980, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340256850) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW chipped at spine ends with tear along the folds, name blanked out with blue marker on fep, 166pp+ colour plates, mountaineering in Himlaya including attempt on Ama Dablam. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 009905

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Himalaya Ama Dablam Hillary Peter Edmund 0340256850

TEMPLE PHILIP

Nawok! the New Zealand expedition to New Guinea's highest Mountains

London, Dent. 1962, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. black cloth, some rubbing to bottom edge of upper board, single name in felt to fep, 189pp + plates colour frontis. DW price clipped, rubbed heavily to edges chipped spine ends and corners, lower panel surface rubbed. Inroduction by Edmund Hillary. The first English account of the Carstensz mountain range in central New Guinea. Six New Zealanders attempt the Carstensz Pyramide, 16,500 feet. Also refernce is made to the local people and countryside etc. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 013005

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: New Guinea Mountaineering Climbing Carstensz

NEW WORLD PRESS

60 Scenic Wonders in China

Beijing, New World Press. 1980, First Edition. Soft Cover, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. Ill.: Shao Yu. (500 gram rate) sewn sections with dust jacket pasted to spine over limp card wrappers, former owner inscription to outside cover (under dust jacket) 238pp + map section at rear including fold out map, travel writing giving history of prominent attractions in China, book form of Travel Talks given on Radio Peking. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 005907

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: China Travel Scenery History Travel Guidetravel Talk Radio Peking Beijing Shao Yu

CONDER C R

Palestine ( The World's great Explorers and Explorations )

London, George Philip & Son. 1889, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. tidy copy, tan boards with titling, original black endpapers, front paste down some surface lifting where a bookplate has been removed, faint foxing to closed edges, viii 270pp +frontis and tissue guard, plates, folding map and colour map plates at rear, + adverts, one page has some light foxing to it offset from a plate, account of Palestine by the leader of the Palestine Exploring Expedition. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004840

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Exploration Travel Writing Palestine Exploring Expedition the World's Great Explorers and Explorations

STOCK RALPH

The Cruise of the Dream Ship

London, Heinemann. 1931, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW has minor edge and corner chipping, is intact and near complete but has some long tears taped on the reverse, one is across the front panel, another along the upper joint, Crown Library reprint edition, large 8vo, ink name to fep,272pp illustrated with photographs by the author, Canaries, West Indies, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas, Paumotu, Papeete, Tahiti, Moorea, Palmerston Island, Savage Island, Friendly Islands, Thursday Island. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012959

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Nautical Sailing Yachting Travel Twentieth Century

BARKER RALPH

The Last Blue Mountain

London, Chatto & Windus. 1959, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW slight wear or chipping to corners and spine ends, small tear and chipping top edge of rear panel, small pen name to fep, 212pp + plates, a fateful expedition and rescue attempt in the Himalaya. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009386

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Haramosh Karakoram Bernard Jillott John Emery Rae Culbert Oxford University Mountaineering Club Mountaineering Expedition First Edition Himalaya Nepal

BARKER RALPH

The Last Blue Mountain

London, Chatto & Windus. 1959, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW slight wear with some short edge tears, chipping loss to head of DW spine, faint foxing to closed edges, 212pp + plates, a fateful expedition and rescue attempt. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010620

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Haramosh Karakoram Bernard Jillott John Emery Rae Culbert Oxford University Mountaineering Club Mountaineering Expedition First Edition Himalaya Nepal

MAUFRAIS RAYMOND

Journey Without Return

London, William Kimber. 1953, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW rubbed to edges with some short splits and edge tears, cloth rubbed to edges, book clean, author disappered in the jungles of Guiana, here his diaries as found at his camp site are translated into English, 206pp + plates. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 012529

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel Exploration Guiana Posthumous

HALLIBURTON RICHARD

The Flying Carpet

New York, Garden City Publishing Company. 1932, First Thus. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. black cloth with dulled titling, some minor soiling to cloth, map endpapers with minor spot of old bookworm , cheap edition, 352pp + plates. Wide travels of this modern adventurer who may have been an agent of military intelligence. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009735

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Travel Adventure Twentieth Century Aviation Flying Europe Middle East Iraq Persia Far East Around the World

FORD RICHARD

Handbook for Travellers in Spain. Fourth Edition Part One Only

London, John Murray. 1869, Revised and Enlarged. Half-Leather, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ex-Library, half calf, upper board detached, leather scuffed and perishing, could be rebacked, but better a rebind, cancelled stamps to paste downs, library plate to paste down, title has a Victorian library stamp and a more recent cancel stamp, lvi + 549 +72pp adverts folding maps as called for includes also the large folding Travelling Map of Spain, this has some tears along the folds, and will need some restoration, it is complete but has some fragile parts, part one only. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010218

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration

Keywords: Spain Espana Travel Victorian Travel Guide Revised Fourth Edition