For the Armchair Explorer: Books on Travel and Exploration
Curated by Julian MacKenzie and Lucinda Boyle, our travel and exploration collection encourages you to travel the globe from the comfort of your own home. Their selections offer an unparalleled escape into the world of adventure, making perfect gifts for the travel-hungry soul or the history enthusiast.
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Ismailia:
BAKER, Samuel White.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00| /Rare inscribed copy. A rare inscribed copy of Baker's Ismailia, the account his suppression of the slave trade in the Nile Basin. Inscribed:'The La...
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Commemorative portrait.
[SCOTT, Capt. Robert Falcon].Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /A rare and very decorative large portrait of Captain Scott.60.9 x 45.7cm, a commemorative chromolithograph portrait of the late Captain Scott, R.N...
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The Bengal Directory and General Register for the Year 1834,
[BENGAL].Original price £1,750.00 - Original price £1,750.00Original price £0.00£1,750.00£1,750.00 - £1,750.00Current price £1,750.00| /Annotated by an officer of the bengal army. Rare. The Bengal Directory contains details of the 'British and Indian Governments', 'Supreme Court Bri...
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Through Masai Land:
THOMSON, Joseph.Original price £4,500.00 - Original price £4,500.00Original price £0.00£4,500.00£4,500.00 - £4,500.00Current price £4,500.00| /Presentation copy. presentation copy on the half-title "to David McIntosh with the Author's Compliments. Lokoja. March 27th."David McIntosh was an ...
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Arabian Sands.
THESIGER, Wilfred.Original price £165.00 - Original price £165.00Original price £0.00£165.00£165.00 - £165.00Current price £165.00| /Thesiger's classic narrative of his years spent amongst the Bedouin of Southern Arabia, travelling on foot.First edition, first impression; 8vo, x...
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In Darkest Africa
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Deluxe edition of Stanley. The deluxe edition of Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to ...
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Asiatic costumes;
SMITH, Captain Robert (illustrator).Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /The Abbey copy. Rare. Robert Smith, a Scot, served in India. The plates are of a high quality, depicting a full range of Indian trades and society,...
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Al-Haram Al-Ibrahami Al-Khalil
SUPREME MOSLEM COUNCIL.Original price £250.00 - Original price £250.00Original price £0.00£250.00£250.00 - £250.00Current price £250.00| /A guide to the fourth holiest site in Islam, sacred to both Muslims and Jews. Includes a geographical and historical review of Hebron and the Cave...
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The Straits Times Annual
SINGAPOREOriginal price £1,000.00 - Original price £1,000.00Original price £0.00£1,000.00£1,000.00 - £1,000.00Current price £1,000.00| /A good pictorial record of Singapore before the Japanese invasion.First edition. Folio. illustrated throughout, original wrappers, light wear, a v...
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A Voyage to the South-Seas, in the years 1740-1.
BULKELEY, John.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /Scarce Dublin edition of 'one of the principal accounts of the Wager, which was wrecked off the southern coast of Chile after rounding Cape Horn. ...
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The navigations, peregrinations and voyages made into Turkie
NICOLAY, Nicolas de.Original price £14,500.00 - Original price £14,500.00Original price £0.00£14,500.00£14,500.00 - £14,500.00Current price £14,500.00| /The rare first English edition of Nicolay's Navigations, a work whose illustrations helped shaped the West's popular imagination of the Islamic wo...
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Album of photographs and sketches
[NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION].Original price £10,000.00 - Original price £10,000.00Original price £0.00£10,000.00£10,000.00 - £10,000.00Current price £10,000.00| /Very scarce. 'the most impressive publication to have resulted from any British experience in the Antarctic' (Taurus).'This glorious and most popu...
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;
LIVINGSTONE, David.Original price £8,500.00 - Original price £8,500.00Original price £0.00£8,500.00£8,500.00 - £8,500.00Current price £8,500.00| /Presentation copy of Livingstone's first expedition. A presentation copy 'Sir Thomas Dyke Acland/ with the kindest salutations/ of his friend/ Davi...
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The caravan route
SALVATOR, Ludwig, Archduke of Austria.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00| /The account of an expedition undertaken in March 1878 by the Archduke, to investigate the possibility of a coastal railway in southern Palestine. ...
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The worst journey in the world.
CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley.Original price £6,750.00 - Original price £6,750.00Original price £0.00£6,750.00£6,750.00 - £6,750.00Current price £6,750.00| /The best written and most enduring account of exploits in the Antarctic.' - Taurus. 'It was perhaps the only real stroke of luck in Scott's ill-fa...
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The Yangtze Gorges in pictures and prose.
LE PALUD, A. M.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /With the rare dust-wrapper. Le Palud's account of a journey from Chungking to Ichang illustrated with fine photographs4to, [iv], xviii pp., large ...
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Travels, researches, and missionary labours,
KRAPF, Rev Dr. J.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Krapf was the first European to see Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. Important account by the German missionary who during his travels collected info...
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Coomassie and Magdala:
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Stanley's lively account, written whilst special correspondent for the New York Herald, of the British Expedition against the Ashantis in Africa u...
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The game of British East Africa
STIGAND, Capt. C[hauncey] H[ugh].Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /'A handsome volume that examines wild game, its habitat, and spoor within Kenya, Uganda, and the eastern Congo regions. Stigand observes game trai...
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A walk across Africa
GRANT, James Augustus.Original price £9,000.00 - Original price £9,000.00Original price £0.00£9,000.00£9,000.00 - £9,000.00Current price £9,000.00| /Inscribed to the author's mother. inscribed "To my dearest Mother," and dated 8 December 1864.One of the scarcest Nile accounts and a monumental wo...
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Through South Africa...
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £3,500.00 - Original price £3,500.00Original price £0.00£3,500.00£3,500.00 - £3,500.00Current price £3,500.00| /Inscribed copy. Rare inscribed copy of Stanley's final book. It consists of articles originally published in the journal, South Africa. Stanley had...
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AEI. Arabia Egypt India.
BURTON, Isabel.Original price £2,500.00 - Original price £2,500.00Original price £0.00£2,500.00£2,500.00 - £2,500.00Current price £2,500.00| /Isabel Burton's second book detailing a journey made with her husband to India, via Arabia and Egypt between 1875 and 1876. Although the work is p...
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Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean,
WILDE, William Robert Wills.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Sir William Robert Wills Wilde, surgeon and Irish antiquary, was the father of Oscar Wilde. Wilde travelled for nine months as medical attendant t...
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