Travel from Lems Bookshop

A guide to 30 of the worlds best train trips. Covers the full range of options, detailed itineraries, fast facts, photos and maps. 181 pages with numerous colour illustrations and maps. Book in very good condition with section of back cover ?price, bar code removed but inside cover intact (book would be near fine but for this).

Signed by the author. In 1996 Tim Jarvis set out to relive Douglas Mawson's extraordinary polar survival journey of 1912-13. Jarvis undertook the hellish journey using the same equipment, clothing and starvation rations as Mawson had available. The story of two journeys undertaken nearly a century apart, to the limits of human endurance. 239 pages with numerous colour illustrations throughout.… Read more about this item

The author's travels mainly in the North of Australia from Perth to Darwin, to Alice Springs and Ayers Rock, to Port Augusta back to Perth. 294 pages with 28 black and white illustrations, 3 maps and endpaper map. Book in very good condition with small tear bottom front cover. No dust jacket.

The finding of a lost civilization and what that involves is the subject of this fascinating, original and remarkable book. The author made his discovery in 1953 on the island of Bahrain. Founded in the thirtieth century BC Dilmun was a sea-trading power. 392 pages with 32 plates, 41 drawings and 9 maps. Book in very good+ condition with inscription… Read more about this item

The author and his girlfriend hitchhike 8,000 miles around outback Australia. 281 pages with endpaper maps. Book in very good condition.

The author was the first person to walk the Flinders Ranges from end to end, Crystal Brook to Mount Hopeless, and he gained an intimate knowledge of the Ranges.231 pages with 32 mainly colour plates, 9 maps, 2 Diagrams and endpaper map. Book in very good+ condition Dust jacket in good+ condition with small piece missing top spine, small tear… Read more about this item

The author's account of the 1,500 mile trek from the mouth of the Gages River upstream into the mountains where the river has its beginnings, The expedition became an exhilarating journey giving a rare view into the heart and soul of India. 273 pages with 13 colour and 47 black and white illustrations, 9 maps and drawings and endpaper map.… Read more about this item

Published by Jacaranda Wiley. Over three quarters of Australia is regarded as the Outback. The author made many trips into this country and gives a photographic and written insight to Australia's outback. 134 pages with colour photographs on most pages and endpaper map. Book and dust jacket in very good+ condition with previous owners name on title page

The author travels through South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, and four Indian Ocean islands. 264 pages with 85 colour photographs, 4 drawings, 9 maps and endpaper photograph. Book in very good condition ex library with sticker on front endpaper, stamp on bottom leading edge, borrowing sleeve remnants on back endpapers and light tanning. Dust jacket in very good condition in… Read more about this item

The authors travel throughout South Africa and record what things entertained and excited them. 446 pages with 44 black and white illustrations, 4 maps and endpaper maps. Boo in very good condition with previous owners details on front endpaper. Dust jacket in very good condition with some wear to edges.

The author lived and worked for thirty five years in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and he records the people and places he saw. 235 pages with 33 black and white illustrations. Book in very good condition.

In March 1992 the authors sold their Sydney business to travel and photograph the remote and rugged regions of Australia. The photographs depict the landscape while the text explores some of the legends which shaped today's Australia - a journey of discovery. 180 pages with colour photographs on nearly all pages. Book in very good+ condition. Dust jacket in very… Read more about this item

The author travels through Australia - the fringes, the deserts, the opal mines, meeting Aborigines and rednecks, and gives a wildly funny account of his travels. 380 pages with a map. Book in good+ condition with light tanning.

A historical guide for travelers to London with detailed descriptions. 96 pages with colour illustrations and maps throughout. Book in very good condition.

A retelling of the mutiny on the Bounty mixing fact and imagination and a first rate travel book. 259 pages with 3 maps. Book in very good condition.

The author travels and adventures in Haiti, Madagascar, India, Australia, Jordan, the Yemen and Mexico and he vividly describes and illustrates the characters he meets. 314 pages with illustrations throughout. Book and dust jacket in near fine condition..

The author and his family turn their backs on the cities and meet the true individualists such as the maker of flint-lock muskets, the bird imitator, the builder of dry stone walls, and how his family fashioned a new way of life. 181 pages with 23 black and white illustrations. Book in very good+ condition. Dust jacket in very good… Read more about this item

The author travels by bicycle from Kenya to Zimbabwe and turns her litany of mishaps into a vivid journey.276 pages with a map. Book in very good condition with previous owners name on first page.

Life on the medical frontline in Angola, Mozambique and South Sudan - a young Australian doctor thinks he is ready for his first posting in Africa to be confronted by reality. 344 pages with 16 pages of colour photographs. Book in very good condition with minor wear.

Using the same equipment, eating the same food, and a replica of the small boat, the author led a six man crew in an attempt to recreate Shackelton's epic journey - a never ending struggle against conditions which fought them all the way. 264 pages with numerous colour and black and white photographs throughout. Book in as new condition. Dust… Read more about this item