Bevan, Ian (Ed. )

The Sunburnt Country.

Collins, 1953. Hard Cover, A profile of Australia, presented to the Queen before her tour. Essays on the landscape, people etc. 256 pp, brown cloth boards. B + w photographs. Occasional light spots of foxing, otherwise clean... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 316

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Australia, Queen Elizabeth, Royalty, Monarchy

Biddlecombe, Peter

Around The World On Expenses.

Abacus, 1996. Mass Market Paperback, 378pp. A couple of light creases to covers, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Hilarious adventures of a businessman, travelling all over the world... Very Good.

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Book number: 7914

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel

Biddlecombe, Peter

I Came, I Saw, I Lost My Luggage.

Abacus, 2001. Mass Market Paperback, 421pp. Illustrated covers. A very clean, tight, unread copy. Hilarious adventures of a businessman, travelling from Beirut to Budapest... As New.

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Book number: 8627

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Travel

Bigland, Eileen

In The Steps of George Borrow.

Rich & Cowan, 1951. First Edition. Hard Cover, First edition. 355pp, beige dustjacket with a little wear to the edges. 28 sepia illustrations. Internally very clean. A biography of the author of Lavengro and The Bible in Spain, with the places he lived in and visited... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 14108

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Biography, Travel, Gypsy, Romany

Biucchi, Edwina and Pilling, Simon

Venice An Architectural Guide.

Batsford, 2002. First Edition. Soft Cover, Ill.: Keith Collie. A heavy softback book. Colour photographs by Keith Collie to each facing page. A light water mark to the bottom of the front flyleaf and the top of the back flyleaf and Index, otherwise clean. Descriptions of important Venetian buildings, showing the central role played by architecture in the history of Venice including 20th century architecture... Good.

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Book number: 16252

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Venice, Architectural History, Architecture,Travel, Italy

Bjerre, Jens

The Last Cannibals.

Michael Joseph, 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover, Translated by Estrid Bannister. Endpaper maps, 192 pp, black cloth boards. Many b + w photographs, the margins of some slightly affected by damp. Tribal life in Australia and New Guinea... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 1171

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: aborigines, New Guinea, Australia, anthropology

Blake, W A

London Midland Steam In Action 2.

Bradford Barton, 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover, 96pp, black boards, complete dustjacket. Many b + w photographs, taken after antionalisation up to the end of steam strains in 1968... As New /As New.

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Book number: 2771

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: train, Railway, Steam

Blakey, Ronald C and Sadler, Christa et al

Canon (Canyon) Journal Land and Peoples of the Colorado Plateau Spring Summer 1995.

Canon Journal, 1995. First Edition. Soft Cover, Large format magazine of 63pp with illustrated soft covers. A very clean copy. Trails and Journeys issue. Articles on trails, the day the Katsinas came home, spanish pathways, dendroglyphs of the San Francisco peaks, dinosaur migrations on the Colorado plateau and the Colorado River etc... Fine.

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Book number: 16317

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Arizona, Grand Canyon, USA, Dendroglyph, Katsina, Hopi, Dinosaur

Blundy, David and Vallely, Paul

With Geldof In Africa Confronting the Famine Crisis.

Times Les Editions Du Pacifique, 1985. Soft Cover, Ill.: Frank Hermann. Large format. 159pp. Many colour photographs of Bob Geldof's work in Ethiopia. Gift inscription on half title, othewise very clean. Published to help the Band Aid appeal for the Ethiopian Famine... Very Good.

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Book number: 3003

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Ethiopia, famine, Band Aid

Bolton, J R Glorney

Roman Century 1870 - 1970.

Hamish Hamilton, 1970. First Edition. Hard Cover, 306pp, illustrated dustjacket with one small closed tear to edge. B + w illustrations. A number in biro to flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. The struggle to make Rome the capital of the united Italy, and the events of the century that followed... Fine /Very Good.

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Book number: 15007

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: History, Italian History, Rome, Pope, Garibaldi

Bone, James

London Echoing.

Jonathan Cape, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Muirhead Bone. 173pp, blue cloth covered boards. B + w pictures by Muirhead Bone. A very clean, Near Fine copy. People and places of London... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 11071

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Muirhead Bone

Bone, James

London Echoing.

Jonathan Cape, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover, Ill.: Muirhead Bone. 173pp, blue cloth boards, faded to spine. B + w pictures by Muirhead Bone. Signature of original owner and date on flyleaf, otherwise internally very clean. People and places of London... Very Good /No Jacket.

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Book number: 2222

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Muirhead Bone

Bowle, John

The Imperial Achievement.

BCA, 1974. Hard Cover, Heavy book of 484pp, illustrated dustjacket with a little edgewear. B + w illustrations. A few tiny spots of foxing to foredge, otherwise clean. The making and transformation of the British Empire... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 3056

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Empire

Bowle, John

The Imperial Achievement.

BCA, 1974. Hard Cover, A heavy book of 484pp. Illustrated dustjacket with a little edgewear. B + w illustrations. A couple of light marks to the foredge, otherwise clean. The making and transformation of the British Empire... Very Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 10531

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Empire

Boyle, Laura

Diary of a Colonial Officer's Wife.

Alden, 1968. Hard Cover, Ex-Library, 175pp, complete dust jacket, a little faded to the spine. Ex library - flyleaf removed, stamp to the title page, otherwise internally clean. Life in what was then the Gold Coast in 1916/17 - the author's husband was a District Commissioner in Ashanti... Good /Very Good.

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Book number: 16812

Catalogue: Travel

Keywords: Gold Coast, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Africa, Colonial