Search Results: Titles starting with U from Barking Mad Books

UNBEATEN TRACKS IN JAPAN - Mrs Bishop, George Newnes Ltd., London, 1900, 2nd edition, single volume ( original edn., 2 vols), 56 B&W illustrations, B&W fold-out map in facsimile, gilt edges, original highly decorated cover, gilt titles, A record of travels in the interior, including visits to the aborigines of Yezo and the shrines of Nikko and Ise - a classic tale of early travel in Japan. Miss Isabella Lucy Bird, later Mrs. J.F. Bishop (1831-1904), left England to seek a better climate for her health in 1878, she returned to Japan in 1894 and 1896. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. - scarce, specially in this condition.
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UNDER A SHELTERING SKY - JOURNEYS TO MOUNTAIN HEARTLANDS 1993-2003 - Colin Monteath, Hedgehog House,Christchurch, 2003, 1st New Zealand Edn: VG+ large format hardback in original black cloth with original VG+ dustjacket, as new - 12 journeys & mountain travel/expeditions in Tibet, Greenland, New Zealand, Antarctica, China, Mongolia, Alaska, Patagonia, Bhutan & Nepal This copy signed by Colin Monteath.
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THE UNVEILING OF LHASA - Edmund Candler, Edward Arnold, London, 1st edn., 1905 Original green cloth with gilt titles and front decoration, B&W plates, some ex-lib stamps, none on exterior of book, Candler was a journalist who accompanied the 1904 Younghusband mission to Lhasa - map in facsimile, new endpapers, worn corners, a much better copy than it sounds. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED

UTTERMOST PART OF THE EARTH, E Lucas Bridges, Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1948 first edn., 558 page hardback in original green cloth with gilt tiles, map as endpapers plus fold-out map, two bumped corners, profusely illustrated with charming sepia plates, previous owner's signature on fep, a timeless classic of life at Estancia Harberton on the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego - a lovely 1st edn. THE IMAGE SHOWN ON BIBLIO IS THE ACTUAL BOOK BEING PURCHASED