ASHER,MICHAEL

A Desert Dies

London, Penguin. 1988, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0140095799) Trade Paperback. Book, "In 1982 the fierce,beautiful and drought-sticken Sahara was home for thousands of nomads. By 1985 it had become a waste land .' A Desert Dies' is Michael Asher's first hand account of living with the Kalabish tribe as they roamad across Sahara by camel, an area devastated by hunger, civil war and the blinkered indifference of politicians. Beginning as a brilliant piece of travel writing, recording the Kababish's everyday life and timeless traditions, it ends as a celebration of their generosity, hospitality and courage in the face of the tragedy of the Sahara, and the terrible prospect of extinction." 330p. plates glossary. index. Paper age toned. Very Good.

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Book number: 039992

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Keywords: 0140095799 Sudan Libya Sahara Desert Camels Kalabish Nomads Sahara North Africa

DE SELINCOURT, BERYL & STURGE-HENDERSON, MAY (GRETTON)

Venice

New York, Dodd Mead & Co. 1907, 1st US Ed.. Hardcover. Ill.: illustrated by Reginald Barratt. Book, Vintage travel book describing Venice c.1900 with 29 full colour plates based on charmimg watercolours by Reginald Barrett. 336p. Text block clean and neat but loose in original covers which are slighty worn at head & foot of spine. Donor inscription dated 1912 on ffep. Good>Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 039811

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Keywords: Illustrated By Reginald Barratt. Italy Venice Trveltrave' Women Explorers & Travellers Italy

EDWARDS, AMELIA B.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys : A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites

London, Virago. 1986. (ISBN: 0860687295) Trade Paperback. Book, Facsimile reprint of classic travel and mountaineering book first published in 1873. This reprint has introduction by Phillipa Levine.357p. illus.map. Very Good.

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Book number: 038386

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Keywords: 0860687295 Italy Dolomites Mountains Women Explorers & Travellers Italy

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

National Geographic Society Research Reports: Abstracts and Reviews of Research and Exploration Authorized Under Grants From the National Geographic Society During the Years 1890-1954

Washington, National Geographic. 1975, First Thus. (ISBN: 0870441361) Hardcover. Book, Reports of major geographic expeditions and scientific exploration funded by the National Geographic Society.399p. illus diagrams. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 040032

Catalogue: Travel Books

Keywords: 0870441361 Geographic Exploration Volcanos Undersea Archaeology

GOVIER, KATHERINE (ED.)

Without a Guide : Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures

Toronto, MacFarlane Walter & Ross. 1994, 1st.Can Ed.. (ISBN: 0921912757) Original Wraps. Book, An interesting collection of travel adventures by a talented array of women writers.234p. Signed on half-title by Katherine Govier. Fine. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 038387

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Keywords: 0921912757 Women Biography Travelers Autobiography Travel General Women Explorers & Travellers Women

GREWAL, ROYINA

In Rajasthan

Melbourne, Australia, Lonely Planet. 1997, 1st Australian Ed. (ISBN: 0864424574) Soft cover. Book, Discussing folk music, architecture, feudal traditions and regional cuisine, Royina Grewal seeks to take the reader behind the exotic facade of this Indian state. She focuses primarily upon people; from the maharajahs to camel trainers and from a female Marxist leader to itinerant snake charmers. This guide does not dwell upon the historical past of Rajasthan, but rather explores the future of a region in transition. New.

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Book number: 045273

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Keywords: 0864424574 Rajasthan India Description Travel Social India

HARDYMENT, CHRISTINA

Heidi's Alp : One Family's Search for Storybook Europe (I|UK Tirle "The Canary Coloured Cart")

New York, Atlantic Monthly Pr. 1988, 1st.US Ed.. (ISBN: 0871131781) Soft cover. Book, This is the US editon of a book first published in the UK as "The Canary-Coloured Cart" The author took her young children on a long trip through Europe in a yellow camper van to visit places associated with their most beloved children's books (Denmark for Hans Christian Anderson, Hamelin for the Pied Piper, the Harz Mountains for Witches and the Brothers Grimm, Italy for Pinocchio and Switzerland for Heidi) 258p. maps. illus. bibliography. Review copy with publisher's note tipped in. Near Fine.

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Book number: 038388

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Keywords: 0871131781 Childrens Stories Literature Children's Books Children's Literature

HEALEY, ROBIN [ED]

Hopeful Travellers: Italian Explorers, Missionaries, Merchants and Adventurers from the Middle Ages to Modern Times, an Exhibition in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, 30 January - 27 April 2007

Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. 2007, 1st Canadian Edition. (ISBN: 0772760616) Original Wraps. Book, Catalogue of an exhibition of books and maps at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto, January 30 to April 27, 2007. 152p. illustrations include 12 fold-out colour reproductions, bibliography. Near Fine.

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Book number: 34599

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Keywords: 0772760616 Travel Books Italian Bibliography Travellers Italian Exhibition Catalogue Italy Exhibition Catalogues

HEYERDAHL, THOR

Aku-Aku : Paskeoyas Hemmelighet

Oslo, Gyldendal. 1957, 1st Norwegian Edition. Hardcover. Book, The book describes the 19551956 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition's investigations of Polynesian history and culture at Easter Island, the Austral Islands of Rapa Iti and Raivavae, and the Marquesas Islands of Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa. Visits to Pitcairn Island, Mangareva and Tahiti are described as well. By far the greatest part of the book tells of the work on Easter Island, where the expedition investigated the giant stone statues (moai), the quarries at Rano Raraku and Puna Pau, the ceremonial village of Orongo on Rano Kau, as well as many other sites throughout the island. Much of the book's interest derives from the interaction of the expedition staff, from their base at Anakena beach, with the Easter Islanders themselves, who lived mainly in the village of Hanga Roa. 361p. illus fold-out maps. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 37848

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Keywords: Polynesia South Pacific Easter Island Travel Exploration D Pacific/Polynesia Etc. Books in Norwegian

LAURENCE, MARGARET

The Library

LAKEFIELD, Ontario, Lakefield Public Library Building Fund. 1986, 1st Canadian Edition. Plastic Cover. Ephemera, Poem written by Margaret Laurence and sold as fund raiser for the Lakefield Public Library Building Fund. Facsimile Signature ,Folder with a sSingle 8x11 sheet. As New/No Jacket. Signed by Author(s).

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Book number: 043759

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Keywords: Canada Canadian Poetry Lakefield Ontaro Libraryxcan 0001 Canadian Writers

LINDSAY, MAURICE

The Eye is Delighted: Some Romantic Travellers in Scotland

London, Frederick Muller. 1971, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0584100825) Hardcover. Book, Scotland as described by some 19th. C. travellers : Thomas Gray, William Gilpin, Sarah Murray, Thomas Thornton, William & Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Felix Mendelssohn & Karl Klingemann, Hans Christian Andersen & Queen Victoria . 296p. plates index. Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 038187

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Keywords: 0584100825 Scotland Scotland

LOVELL, MARY S.

A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton

New York, W W Norton & Co Inc. 1998. (ISBN: 0393046729) Hardcover. Book, "From the moment they met, their marriage seemed both inevitable and impossible. Isabel was a schoolgirl, scion of the Arundells, England's most distinguished Catholic family, and when they passed each other while walking at a seaside resort, Richard Burton had already made his mark as a linguist, scholar, traveler, and rebel against Victorian conformity. A hundred yards on, Isabel looked back and found him staring after her: she decided then that she would marry him. It was several years before they met again. By then Burton was one of the most accomplished linguists in the Indian Army. An intelligence agent with a genius for disguise, he had risked death to penetrate Mecca during the hadj, posing as a native pilgrim. He would soon become even more famous as one of the earliest explorers of East Africa. After their marriage, the Burtons traveled the world from diplomatic postings in Brazil and Africa to hair-raising adventures in the Syrian desert. In later life Richard courted further controversy as translator of such erotic classics as the unexpurgated edition of The Arabian Nights, The Perfumed Garden, and The Kama Sutra. Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right." 910p. bibliography.index. As New/As New.

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Book number: 038392

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Keywords: 0393046729 Sir Richard Burton Isabel Africa Arabia India Biographies Women Explorers & Travellers

MACAULAY, ROSE

Fabled Shore : From the Pyrenees to Portugal

London, Hamish Hamilton. 1956, 1st UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, "Fabled Shore is a true description of this long strange coast and its haunted hinterland, to which Homer sent Odysseus voyaging, where, in the regions about Tartessos, dark Tartarus was placed, and the Elysian plains, the abode of the blest, 'at the ends of the earth, where life is easiest. No snow is there, nor great storm, nor ever any rain; but always Oceanus sends forth the breezes of clear-blowing Zephyrus"That, as Strabo observed, is obviously Iberia."220p. illus .index maps on endpapers. Fine/Very Good, Slight Chips & Tear.

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Book number: 038382

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Keywords: Spain Portugal Women Explorers & Travellers Spain / Spanish

MILLER, LUREE

On Top of the World: Five Women Explorers in Tibet

London, Paddington Press. 1976, 1st US Ed.. (ISBN: 0846701383) Hardcover. Ex-Library, Describes the exceptional courage and endurance of "Five dauntless women .Nina Mazuchelli, Annie Taylor, Isabella Bird Bishop, Fanny Bullock Workman, Alexandra David-Neel" 222p. illus mps, bibliograpy.index. maps on endpapers. Clean neat copy, only minor signs of library ownership (stamps on endpaper and verso of title page). Very Good/Very Good, Price Clipped.

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Book number: 038393

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Keywords: 0846701383 Lhasa Tibet Mountaineering Women Explorers Mazuchelli, Annie Taylor, Isabella Bird Bishop, Fanny Bullock Workman, Alexandra David-Nee Women Explorers & Travellers

MURPHY, DERVLA

Cameroon with Egbert

London, Arrow. 1990, Reprint. (ISBN: 0099728001) Soft cover. Book, Their most recent sojourn took them to Africa for the first time, where Murphy, eighteen-year-old Rachel and a Fulani stallion called Egbert spent three unpredictable months following ludicrously inaccurate maps leading them from village to village in Cameroon. Although they spoke none of Cameroon's 300 or so languages, the Murphys enjoyed the hospitality of the local people and numerous village chiefs--some with as many as 250 wives--as they made their way through the highlands, where Europeans were first seen fewer than ninety years ago. They camped in the uncannily depopulated Gangdaba Mountains, which soon broke their nerve; during their stay in the breathtaking Mbabo Mountains, they had the chance to observe the indigenous wildlife--warthogs, antelope, baboons, and colobus monkeys. Very Good.

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Book number: 038397

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Keywords: 0099728001 Cameroon Africa Travel Africa Women Explorers & Travellers