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An Account of the Voyage to New South Wales: to which is prefixed a detail of his Life, Trials, Speeches &c., &c.,
by George Barrington (Superintendant of the Convicts)
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Antarctica: Authentic Accounts of Life and Exploration in the World's Highest, Driest, Windiest, Coldest and Most Remote Continent
by Charles Neider (ed)
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1st edition, 1973 with maps to endpapers. With chapters by James Cook, Roald Admundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and others.
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Cabool: being a personal narrative of a Journey to, and Residence of that City in the Years 1836,7 and 8.
by Lieut-Col Sir Alexander Burnes, C.B.
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1842 edition, complete with fold-out illustrations, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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Discoveries In The Ruins Of Nineveh And Babylon
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains fold-out illustration. Facsimile of the 1853 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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Encyclopedia of Exploration [Two Volumes]: Volume 1 - The Explorers Volume 2 - Places, Technologies and Cultural Trends
by Carl Waldman and Jon Cunningham and Alan Wexler
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The desire for knowledge, resources, and fame as well as a sense of duty and adventurousness has driven intrepid explorers away from their homes and into the unknown since the time of the first people. Human beings are naturally curious, and their ability to imagine what lies just beyond the horizon has helped them populate the globe, driven their technological advancements, and allowed them to discover new ways of surviving in even the most inhospitable of environments. Encyclopedia of Exploration is a two-volume reference to the history of human exploration over land, across and under seas, and into space. This must-have set - a fascinating, comprehensive reference covering core topics in the school curriculum for world history and geography - details various aspects of exploration, many of the great expeditions, and numerous explorers. Bridging the curiosity of today's students and general readers with the experiences of explorers of the past, the encyclopedia provides easy access to a wide range…
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Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa: with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chace of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus and other animals
by Paul B. Du Chaillu
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1861 edition, lavishly illustrated, complete with fold-out illustration and map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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First Footsteps in East Africa or An Exploration of Harar
by Captain Sir Richard F. Burton K.C.M.G. F.R.C.S.
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TWO VOLUME SET. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1894 edition. Memorial edition, illustrated by his wife Isabel Burton. Facsimile, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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The Head-Hunters of Borneo: A Narrative of Travel up the Mahakkam and Down The Barito; also, Journeyings in Sumatra.
by Carl Bock
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1881 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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How I found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa; including four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone
by Henry M. Stanley (Travelling Correspondent for the New York Herald)
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1872 edition, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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In the Forbidden Land: an account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release.
by A. Henry Savage Landor
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In Two Volumes - both volumes are in one book. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1898 edition, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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In the Forbidden Land: an account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release.
by A. Henry Savage Landor
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In Two Volumes - both volumes are in one book. Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1898 edition, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
by John Hanning Speke (Captain H.M. Indian Army)
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains large fold-out map inside back cover. Facsimile of the 1863 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers and reproduction of the author's signature.
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A Journey to Katmandu (The Capital of Napaul): with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home
by Laurence Oliphant
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa.
by David Livingstone LL.D., D.C.L.
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leather binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1857 edition, complete with fold-out map and illustration, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea in the Years 1819-20-21-22
by John Franklin
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Green cloth boards with Pictorial design on pastedowns. gilt lettering and design to spine. Title pages have b/w leaf design. 2 page map b y George Philip & Sons on post-contents pages. 434pp. Condition: v. good. clean. Bookplate on front pastedown. Otherwise vg. Binding vg.
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The North Pole
by Robert E. Peary
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Facsimile of the 1910 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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A Ride to Khiva: Travels and Adventures in Central Asia
by Fred Burnaby, Captain, Royal Horse Guards
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Facsimile of the 1876 edition, complete with fold-out maps, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers.
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Through the Dark Continent VOL I ONLY: The Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean
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26x18x3cm. 400pp. Black half leather bound. Brown flecked edges. Grey top edge. Frontispiece of Stanley. Fold out map. B/w maps and illustrations throughout. CONDITION: boards have moderate wear, very worn at corners. Spine almost detached in some sections. One section completely detached (provided). Needs repair. Front and back gutters broken through. Foxing to prelims. Occasional foxing/age marking to internal pages, but internally generally clean and well-bound. Fold out map in good condition.
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Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa: Being the Narrative of the Last Eleven Years Spent by the Author on the Zambesi and its Tributaries; With an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in That Country
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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains several maps and illustrations. Facsimile of the 1893 edition, lavishly illustrated, complete with fold-out map, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers and reproduction of the author's signature.
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A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions As to the Life, Character, and Thought of the People of Persia, Received During Twelve Months' Residence in That Country in the Years 1887-8
by Edward G. Browne M.A. M.B.
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