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Love Among the Butterflies: The Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady
Fountaine, Margaret
Book Number: 62805
ISBN: 0002165147
Publisher: Collins, London 1980
Large 8vo. hardcover. 224pp. colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles
Eagle, Dorothy
Book Number: 34297
ISBN: 0192850989
Publisher: Oxford University Press 1993
8vo softcover 415pp index, b/w illus, maps. very good. Informative and entertaining, this guide is the ideal companion for any journey around Britain and Ireland. From Shakespeare's Stratford and Dickens's London to the Dublin of James Joyce, it lists hundreds of places and gives details of their connections with the lives of famous writers. The wealth of curious information and anecdote will delight anyone with an interest in Britain and Ireland's rich literary heritage. Gazetteer of over 1,250 towns and villages. For each place, details of who lived there, where they lived, and what they wrote. Index with biographies of over 1,000 writers helps you follow a writer from place to place. Maps and detailed directions.
Price: $9.00


The Diary of a Happy Dropout
Rouse, Kate
Book Number: 32187
ISBN: 0646287427
Publisher: Zepher, Sydney 1996
8vo. Yellow wraps. Inscribed by author. 375pp. very good. Not just a travel story, this book is about spiritual growth, realizing dreams and who we really are.
Price: $15.00


An Australian Odyssey. From Giza to Gallipoli
Hutchinson, Garrie
Book Number: 62540
ISBN: 0733603874
Publisher: Sydney. Sceptre. 1997.
8vo. softcover. 315pp. b/w illus. very good, bottom cover corner creased.
Price: $8.00


Siberia in Asia: a visit to the valley of the Yenesay in east Siberia, with description of the natural history, migration of birds, etc.
Seebohm, Henry
Book Number: 42631
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: John Murray 1882
8vo. dec. cloth hardcover. 304pp. b/w illus. fold-out map. Cover Good, wear to cover corners, a few eaten spots on cover, map is worn on edge and has a small tear, Very good inside, light foxing.
Price: $95.00


Chinese Cookbook
Pan, Pei-Chih
Book Number: 53535
ISBN: 0712629130
Publisher: China 1974
Small 4to. hardcover. 200pp. colour illus. Very good. / Very good d/w. 180 very traditional chinese recipes.
Price: $22.00


My Mission to Abyssinia
Portal, Gerald H.
Book Number: 54479
ISBN: 
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London, 1892.
8vo. maroon cloth hardcover. 261pp. b/w frontis with tissue guard, fold out map at rear. Good, missing fep & half-title, some foxing, mainly to endpapers & prelims, light wear to cover corners, hinges cracked.
Price: $125.00


The Blind Leading the Blind
Andrews, Stuart
Book Number: 33560
ISBN: 1741101794
Publisher: Sydney New Holland 2004
8vo softcover 240pp colour illus. very good+. "Foreword by General Peter Cosgrove. In 1993, Stuart Andrews, Russell Short, Ched Town, and Brian Lang began an adventure. ... Travelling to Cape York, the group set out for Papual New Ginea in kayaks ... . Then factor in that Russell and Ched are blind.--Foreword.
Price: $12.00


Diving Indonesia - A Guide to the World's Greatest Diving.
Editors, Periplus (Editor)
Book Number: 46285
ISBN: 9625931457
Publisher: Periplus Editions May 30, 1997
8vo softcover 332pp very good. Index. Illustrated with 120 color photgraphs. Diving Indonesia is the dive guide that sweeps across the richest tropical waters in the world. This guide covers sites from the Kradatau volcano off West Java to Mapia atoll north of New Guinea, and dive options ranging from comfortable live-aboards to tagging along with local pearl divers. Information geared to every budget, including accomodation, transportation, prices when to visit and dive operators. Essays on reef ecology and life, local geography, history and lore. Also features at-a-glance charts of site and 43 colour maps.
Price: $20.00


Worlds Apart: Travels in War and Peace
Young, Gavin
Book Number: 27415
ISBN: 0091682207
Publisher: London Hutchinson, 1987
8vo hardcover 344pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


From the ocean to the sky
Hillary, Edmund, Sir
Book Number: 27835
ISBN: 0340224606
Publisher: Viking 1979
8vo hardcover 272pp index, colour & b/w illus. endpaper maps. very good / good d/w.
Price: $12.00


OVER THE ALPS. Reflections on Travel & Travel Writings with special reference to the Grand Tours of Boswell, Beckford & Byron
Anderson, Patrick
Book Number: 20882
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davis 1969. First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. index. b/w illus. very good. / poor, chipped d/w.
Price: $12.00


Fight the Wild Island A Solo Walk Across Iceland
Edwards, Ted
Book Number: 22674
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, John Murray, 1986, First edition.
8vo. hardcover. 188pp. + b/w plates. near fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $15.00


A Pedestrian Tour in Calabria & Sicliy
Strutt, Arthur John
Book Number: 60164
ISBN: 
Publisher: T.C.Newby, London, 1842.
8vo. Marbled paper boards with half brown leather, spine has gilt dec. & title. 369pp. Very good, rubbing to cover edges, foxing to endapers, bookseller stamp inside front cover. Light foxing throughout.
Price: $2250.00


Ann Kearns' Sevenoaks
Harper, patrick (research & text)
Book Number: 27945
ISBN: 0951994603
Publisher: Foxprint Publications 1992
4to hardcover 48pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w with tear on top edge. signed by Ann Kearns on ffl.
Price: $20.00


Lancaster Coast of Coral and Pearl
Brown, Peter
Book Number: 21379
ISBN: 
Publisher: Travel Book Club, 1973
8vo. hardcover. 208pp. index. + b/w plates. very good. / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


Serpents in Paradise
Phelan, Nancy
Book Number: 4182
ISBN: 
Publisher: London MacMillan 1967
8vo. First Edition Inscribed by Author. 215pp. Very good/ good+ d/w with chipped top edgg.
Price: $20.00


Journey Among Men.
Marshall, Jock and Drysdale, Russell.
Book Number: 47853
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 19627
Small 4to. Orig red spine on green cloth gilt. hardcover. 206pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, light foxing to outer page edges. / Very good d/w, lightly chipped at spine ends. With many sketches by Drysdale, route maps on eps. Observations of men made on a zoological expedition to outback Australia (e.g.:
Price: $15.00


Chopper 11 - Last Man Standing - From Ex-con to Icon
Read, Mark Brandon
Book Number: 61640
ISBN: 0977544044
Publisher: Sly Ink September 2007
8vo. Softcover. 225pp. Po inscription otherwise near fine.
Price: $18.00


In Exile from the Land of the Snows
Avedon, John F.
Book Number: 55701
ISBN: 0861710290
Publisher: United States, Wisdom Publications. 1985
8vo softcover 479pp colour & b/w illus. very good.
Price: $10.00


Camping with the Prince and other tales of Science in Africa
Bass,Thomas A.
Book Number: 20742
ISBN: 
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Boston, 1990
8vo. hardcover. 304pp. index. very good/very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


One More Day Everywhere: Crossing 50 Borders on the Road to Global Understanding
Heggstad, Glen
Book Number: 51200
ISBN: 155022882X
Publisher: Ecw Press November 1, 2009
8vo softcover 280pp very good. Illustrated with in-text b&w photo's. In 2001, martial arts-trained biker Glen Heggstad began a journey from California to the tip of South America on his motorcycle and made it as far as Colombia, where he was kidnapped by local rebels and held captive. Undeterred by more than a month of traumatic incarceration, the "Striking Viking" finished his trip after being released. Three years later he set out into the world on his bike again, this time searching for truth on his own terms in a world that had become strangled by a climate of fear. Starting his trip in Japan, he traveled through Siberia, Mongolia, Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia, and Africa, stopping in more than 30 countries to deliver his message of the real United States, as he knew it. Unique stories and gritty adventure fill this quest for new sights and insights amongst extreme temperatures, knee-deep mud, bureaucratic roadblocks, health problems, and loneliness.
Price: $15.00


Great Railway Adventure
Portway, Christopher
Book Number: 28102
ISBN: 090228097X
Publisher: Oxf. Illustrated Press 1983
8vo hardcover 228pp, colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $15.00


The Road to Oxiana
Byron, Robert
Book Number: 43810
ISBN: 
Publisher: Folio Society 2000
8vo. illustrated cloth hardcover. 329pp. index. b/w plates, maps. Very good+, no slipcase.
Price: $35.00


Natural Wonders of the World: 100 Spectacular Wonders of the Natural World
Baxter, John, etc.
Book Number: 29170
ISBN: 0749510463
Publisher: AA Publishing, 1995
4to hardcover 208pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w. A reference source to the natural world with full accounts and explanations of 100 natural wonders from around the world. There are key maps, spot maps and map extracts giving locations for every article. Places included are the Grand Canyon, Australia's Ulura, and the Giants' Causeway in Ireland.
Price: $12.00


English Journey
Priestley, J. B.
Book Number: 51289
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: The Folio Society 1997
Large 8vo. 348pp. index, b/w illus. Fine. / Near Fine slipcase.
Price: $25.00


THE WATERS OF ROME.
Morton, H.V
Book Number: 60067
ISBN: 
Publisher: The Connoisseur and Michael Joseph, London, 1966.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 302pp. index. With 49 colour photographs by Mario Carrieri and other illustrations. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $22.00


Exploring Wales
Barber, W. T.
Book Number: 36772
ISBN: 0715381792
Publisher: Newton Abbot David & Charles 1982
8vo hardcover 208pp index, b/w illus. very good, fep clipped. / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00


The Pass
White, Stewart Edward
Book Number: 59564
ISBN: 
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton 1906.
8vo. green cloth hardcover. 198pp. b/w illus. map. colour frontis. Good, water stain to some page edges.
Price: $18.00


Dolce e Salata : a bittersweet adventure in Tuscany
De Blasi, Marlena
Book Number: 45031
ISBN: 1741144671
Publisher: Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 2004
8vo softcover 325pp very good. Marlena and her Italian husband Fernando rent a stable with no telephone, no heating and a toy kitchen. There they meet Barlozzo, who shares his knowledge of farming traditions, sacred festivals, ancient helath potions and artisan food makers. Includes recipes.
Price: $15.00


Sebastiano : The Adventures of an Italian Priest Sebastiano Locatelli During His Journey from Bologna to Paris and Back 1664-1665
Blunt, Wilfrid
Book Number: 50300
ISBN: 
Publisher: James Barrie, London, 1956.
8vo. cream cloth hardcover. 293pp. index, b/w illus. fold-out map. Very good. / No d/w.
Price: $10.00


Small Boat on the Moselle
Pilkington Rodger, Illustrated by David Knight
Book Number: 52804
ISBN: 
Publisher: Macmillan, London, 1968.
8vo. hardcover. 246pp. index. b/w illus. / no d/w.
Price: $10.00


Journeys in England. An Anthology.
Simmons. Jack. (Ed)
Book Number: 20826
ISBN: 
Publisher: London. David & Charles. 1969
8vo. hardcover. 288pp. index. very good, owner's signature on fep. / good, lightly chipped d/w.'
Price: $10.00


Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945
Lancaster, Rosemary
Book Number: 51083
ISBN: 1921401133
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press September 5, 2008
8vo softcover 234pp very good. Index. Colour illustrations. Maps. Profiles extraordinary Australian women who travelled to France at different times through history and who formulated their impressions in fiction, diaries, letters, and autobiographies, between 1880 and 1945. The book explores how the women adapted to new environments in a world of changing attitudes to feminine education, professionalism and sexuality. It includes the narratives of a schoolgirl, an artist, novelists, nurses and a secret agent.
Price: $14.00


Over the Hills and Far Away. An English Odessey
Green, Candida Lycett
Book Number: 43276
ISBN: 0385603312
Publisher: Doubleday 2002
8vo hardcover 212pp. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Two Impostors
Vare, Daniele
Book Number: 35451
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Murray 1949
8vo. green cloth hardcover. 292pp. very good. / no d/w.
Price: $18.00


A Feather on the Tide
Wolff-Wilson, Alison
Book Number: 23061
ISBN: 
Publisher: Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1985
8vo. hardcover. 234pp. + b/w plates. near fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $12.00


Six Months in Sudan - A Young Doctor in a War-torn Village
Maskalyk, James
Book Number: 52863
ISBN: 9781863256889
Publisher: Bantam
Trade paperback. 340pp. Good. An inspiring story of one doctor’s struggle in a war-torn village in the heart of Sudan. In 2007, James Maskalyk, newly recruited by Doctors Without Borders, set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan. An emergency physician drawn to the ravaged parts of the world, Maskalyk spent six months treating malnourished children, coping with a measles epidemic, watching for war, and struggling to meet overwhelming needs with few resources. Six Months in Sudan began as a blog that Maskalyk wrote from his hut in Sudan in an attempt to bring his family and friends closer to his experiences on the medical front line of one of the poorest and most fragile places on earth. It is the story of the doctors, nurses, and countless volunteers who leave their homes behind to ease the suffering of others, and it is the story of the people of Abyei, who endure its hardship because it is the only home they have.
Price: $10.00


Road To The Pyrenees
Higham, Roger
Book Number: 29426
ISBN: 0002164191
Publisher: London: The Travel Book Club, 1971.
8vo hardcover 156pp, b/w illus. good / very good d/w. '
Price: $10.00


Tuscany : An Anthology
Raison, Laura (compiled by)
Book Number: 49344
ISBN: 0946313032
Publisher: Cadogan Books, London 1983
Large 8vo. hardcover. 262pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good, foxed d/w.
Price: $18.00


Long Distance Paths of England and Wales
Millar, T.G
Book Number: 5168
ISBN: 
Publisher: London. David & Charles.1980. 5th imp
large 8vo. hardcover. 160pp. index. b/w illus, maps. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


The Italian Lakes
Feist, Aubrey
Book Number: 4855
ISBN: 
Publisher: Batsford, 1st ed 1975
Orange boards in very good d/w - clipped. Illustrated with b&w plates, map, index, 207pp.
Price: $10.00


Guide to Literary London
Williams, George
Book Number: 4781
ISBN: 
Publisher: Batsford, London, 1973 first edition
8vo. Cloth hardcover. 406pp. Index. Maps. Very good / very good, clipped, lightly chipped d/w with faded spine.
Price: $12.00


True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris
Holdforth, Lucinda
Book Number: 52401
ISBN: 1740512898
Publisher: Random House Australia 2004
8vo softcover 226pp very good. Meet the dazzling women of Paris, from Colette to Nancy Mitford, Marie Antoinette to Coco Chanel, Napoleon's Josephine to Edith Wharton. Rule Breakers and Style Setters, these women were utterly diverse, yet they shared one common passion - Paris.
Price: $8.00


The Sierras of the South. Travels in the Mountains of Andalusia
Boyd, Alastair
Book Number: 54813
ISBN: 0002154889
Publisher: HarperCollins 1992
8vo. hardcover. 470pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, spine slanted. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


Venice: Pure City
Ackroyd, Peter
Book Number: 59900
ISBN: 9780701172855
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London 2009.
8vo. hardcover. 403pp. index, b/w illus. Very good, page edges slightly browned. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $20.00


With Dante in Florence - Walks in Florence to Places marked by Epigraphs recalling the history of Dante's day
Parrini, Amerigo - English Version by C. Daniell Tassinari
Book Number: 54051
ISBN: 
Publisher: Giulio Giannini & Son Publishers Florence.
8vo. Red decorated boards, with small chip at top extreme. Hardcover. Very good. 272pp. Illustrated by Professor Carlo Guerini, Professor Chiaramonti, Giulio Giannini Junior. This book has been written to explain the meaning of the thirty-one Dantesque Epigraphs affixed to old buildings in Florence, each one realling some great deed or famous name of Florentine history, at a period when the glorious destinies of our restless, energetic Commune were closely connected with the destinies of Italy.
Price: $15.00


AT THE SIGN OF THE CLEIKUM: REMINISCENCES OF INNERLEITHEN, 1926-1932
ANDERSON, J. A
Book Number: 51969
ISBN: 1898654042
Publisher: BORDERSPRINT 1996
8vo softcover 198pp , b/w illus. very good, some underlining in pencil.
Price: $8.00


A Year In Provence.
Mayle, Peter. illustrated by Leslie Forbes.
Book Number: 23476
ISBN: 
Publisher: London. Hamish Hamilton, 1989.
8vo. hardcover. 197pp. b/w illus. fine. / near fine d/w.
Price: $10.00


The Cevennes Journal. Notes on a journey through the French highlands.
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Book Number: 54418
ISBN: 0800814142
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh
8vo hardcover 158pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


Yorkshire. The West Riding.
Pill, David.
Book Number: 23847
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Batsford, 1977
8vo. hardcover. 207pp. index, b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ d/w.
Price: $12.00


Harlequin Set. Holidays in Many Lands
Leslie, Henrietta, Illustrated by Helen E Federn
Book Number: 6905
ISBN: 
Publisher: London: Macdonald & Co. no date
8vo. hardcover. 245pp. colour plates. good, light foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. rear endpaper creased with some tiny tears. owner's name on fep. / good_, chipped, clipped d/w.
Price: $12.00


House of Tears Westerners' Adventures in Islamic Lands
Hughes, Dr John
Book Number: 57586
ISBN: 1592287999
Publisher: Lyons Press, UK 2005
8vo. hardcover. 271pp. Very good+, owner's inscription on fep. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $18.00


Mirror to Damascus
Thubron, Colin
Book Number: 47296
ISBN: 
Publisher: London. Heinemann 1967
Large 8vo. Hardcover. 226pp. Index, b/w illus. maps. Very good. / very good, lightly rubbed d/w with a few tiny tears on edges.
Price: $30.00


Butterflies and Late Loves: The Further Travels and Adventures of a Victorian Lady
Fountaine, Margaret
Book Number: 53651
ISBN: 0881623075
Publisher: Salem House, Massachusetts, 1987.
Large 8vo. hardcover.141pp. b/w frontis. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $12.00


Weymouth and Portland (Britain in Old Photographs)
Gosling, T.
Book Number: 34299
ISBN: 0750911409
Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd 1995
8vo softcover 128pp, b/w illus. very good.
Price: $8.00


More Country Talk.
Peel, J. H. B.; Illustrated by Biro, B. S.
Book Number: 22644
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Robert Hale, 1973 first edition
8vo. hardcover. 223pp. b/w illus. very good+. / very good+ clipped d/w.
Price: $12.00


A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
Spain, Nancy
Book Number: 22732
ISBN: 
Publisher: London, Hutchinson, 1965
8vo. hardcover. 224pp. very good. / very good, clipped d/w.
Price: $12.00


British Canals. An illustrated History
Hadfield, Charles
Book Number: 22890
ISBN: 
Publisher: London David & Charles 1974
8vo. hardcover. 356pp. index, + b/w plates. near fine, minor foxing to outer page edges. / near fine d/w.
Price: $25.00


The Canals of South West England.
Hadfield, Charles.
Book Number: 22896
ISBN: 
Publisher: Newton Abbot. David & Charles. 1967.
8vo. hardcover. 256pp. index, + b/w plates. very good+. / very good d/w.
Price: $25.00



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