Explorers Books at Dial a Book Sydney

North West Passage
Thomson, George Malcolm
Book Number: 59313
ISBN: 0436520486
Publisher: London Secker 1975
8vo hardcover 288pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's signature on fep / very good d/w. Bibliography: p. 276-278.
Price: $18.00

The Great American West: A Pictorial History from Coronado to the Last Frontier
Horan, James D.
Book Number: 5891
ISBN:
Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1959, First Edition
black cloth with tan cloth spine, title stamped in black on spine. VG., light tape marks & light foxing to endpapers, owner's details on fep. No d/w. First Edition. oversized volume. 650 illustrations in halftone and color, including 500 historical photographs.
Price: $15.00

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT
Mear, Roger and Swan, Robert
Book Number: 3858
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, 1987. 1st edition.
Signed on title page by author (Swan) pp xiv+306. 8vo. Colour & b/w illus. Fine/very good.
Price: $12.00

A Voyage to the East Indies in 1747 and 1748.
no author stated
Book Number: 60193
ISBN:
Publisher: Printed for T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, London 1762.
8vo. leather hardcover. 341pp. b/w illus, one folding. Good, light foxing, page five stained. Wear to cover edges. Folding illus. has small tear on fold & creased and torn bottom edge. Owner's signature inside front cover.
Price: $2400.00

A voyage of discovery to the Southern Hemisphere, performed by order of the Emperor Napoleon, during the years 1801, 1802, 1803 and 1804.
Peron, M. F.
Book Number: 59733
ISBN: 0909342040
Publisher: Mark Walsh Publishing, Melbourne 1975.
8vo. brown leather hardcover. 316pp. 2 folding b/w paltes. A very good+ copy with some minor foxing, mainly on the outer page edges. Light wrinke to the front folding plate. In foxed cardbard slipcase. limited edition of 350 copies, this copy #184. Facsimile edition of 1809 edition published in London.
Price: $250.00

In Search of Truth : A New Version of the Episodes Leading up to, During and Following the Mutiny on the Bounty
Bowley, Robert E.
Book Number: 54324
ISBN: 0968019706
Publisher: Rebel Publishing Co, Peterborough, ON, Canada, 1995.
4to. softcover. 102pp. colour & b/w illus. Fine
Price: $15.00

Mutiny in the Bounty and Story of the Pitcairn Islanders
McFarland, Alfred
Book Number: 59160
ISBN:
Publisher: J.J. Moore, Sydney, 1884.
8vo. Original brown dec. cloth hardcover. 240pp. Good+, some foxing.
Price: $65.00

Sea of Dangers: Captain Cook and His Rivals
Blainey, Geoffrey
Book Number: 59043
ISBN: 9780670072231
Publisher: Penguin Viking, Melbourne, Australia., 2008.
8vo. hardcover. 420pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $20.00

Captain James Cook
Hough, Richard
Book Number: 43274
ISBN:
Publisher: London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1994
8vo. Black Cloth Gilt Spine, hardcover. 398pp. index, + b/w plates. very good. / very good d/w faded on spine edge.
Price: $18.00

Who Caused the Mutiny on the Bounty?
Darby, Madge
Book Number: 60406
ISBN:
Publisher: Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1965.
8vo. hardcover. 127pp. index. Very good+. / Very good d/w with faded spine.
Price: $15.00

COOPER'S CREEK.
MOOREHEAD, Alan
Book Number: 2999
ISBN:
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton. London. (1963). 1st ed.
8vo. Or.cl. d/w. 222pp. Frontis., b/w plates & text illusts. Jacket design by Sidney Nolan. Very good+. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Captain Bligh's Second Chance: An Eyewitness Account of His Return to the South Seas By Lt. George Tobin
Tobin, George. (Edited by Roy Schreiber)
Book Number: 58199
ISBN: 9780868408460
Publisher: University of New South Wales Press, Australia, 2007.
8vo. softcover. 184pp. index, colour illus. Near Fine.
Price: $22.00

The Guinness Book of Explorers and Exploration
Gavet-Imbert, Michel
Book Number: 37378
ISBN: 0851129730
Publisher: Guinness 1991
4to hardcover 288pp index, colour illus. very good / very good d/w. Whether impelled by greed or curiosity, by national pride or a thirst for scientific knowledge, explorers have always had gripping tales to tell. Not only were there the dangers - of fevers, hostile tribes, impenetrable forests and icy water - but also the beauties and mysteries of the unknown. Covering the ancient world to the space age, this book recounts the stories of famous explorers - Alexander the Great, Columbus, Captain Cook, Livingstone, Scott and many others. It also includes many less well-known expeditions, such as the bloody conquest of Kamchatka, the ancient Carthaginian who might have sailed to West Africa, the medieval Arab who reached China and the French expedition to Australia. Background information is provided on each phase of exploration, the equipment and technology available and the people and places discovered.
Price: $12.00

Explorers and Exploration
Cameron, Ian
Book Number: 58849
ISBN: 0792455533
Publisher: London. Bison. 1991.
Folio. Hardcover. 304pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good. / very good d/w faded on spine.
Price: $18.00

Columbus - the Gold, God and Glory: In Search of the Real Christopher Columbus
Dyson, John
Book Number: 28512
ISBN: 0340487941
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991
4to hardcover 224pp colour illus. very good / very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Royal Geographical Society History of World Exploration
Keay, John (General Editor)
Book Number: 49154
ISBN: 0600570606
Publisher: Hamlyn. London. 1991
4to. hardcover. 320pp. indexcolur & b/w illus. Very good, page edges slightly browned. / Very good d/w.
Price: $15.00

Travellers in Time: Seven Epic Stories of Early Exploration
Robinson, Richard
Book Number: 29403
ISBN: 0356127982
Publisher: London Macdonald September 1986
Square 8vo hardcover 160pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Table of Contents:nAssault on Everest / by C.G. Bruce, George Leigh-Mallory, and George Finch -- Pearls and savages / by Frank Hurley -- Under the sea / by John Williamson -- Across Greenland / by Alfred Wegener, Ernst Sorge, and Karl Weiken -- Wings over Africa / by Alan Cobham -- Storm, Cape Horn / by Irving Johnson -- The home of the blizzard / by Douglas Mawson.
Price: $10.00

Two Below Zero. A Year Alone in Antarctica.
McINTYRE, D. AND P. MEREDITH.
Book Number: 40788
ISBN:
Publisher: Terrey Hills: Australian Geographic, 1996
4to. Or.cl.d.w. (256pp.). With col. frontisp., half-title illust., illust. end-papers, and profusely illust. with photographic col. plates, many double or full-page. very good. / very good d/w with top edge slightly curled and crease on back panel.
Price: $18.00

The North Pole (Classics of Exploration)
Peary Robert E.
Book Number: 50742
ISBN: 705415066
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Belgium, 1987
8vo. Padded leather covered boards, hardcover, gilt edges. 326pp. index, b/w illus. Very good+, book plate on fep., Time life Classics of Exploration slip taped to verso fep. .
Price: $25.00

Mutiny on the Globe: The fatal voyage of Samuel Comstock
Heffernan, Thomas Farel
Book Number: 55484
ISBN: 0747560986
Publisher: Bloomsbury 2002
8vo softcover 352pp very good, light foxing to endpapers an edges. A true story of violence, megalomania and high-adventure survival in the Pacific islands, circa 1824. Samuel Comstock was the chief perpetrator of the mutiny on the Nantucket whaling ship, Globe, and his psychopathology overshadows everything else in the Globe story.
Price: $12.00

The Narrative of Captain David Woodard and Four Seamen. Who lost their ship while in a boat at sea, & surrendered themselves up to the Malays in the Island of Celebes...
Woodard, David
Book Number: 46841
ISBN:
Publisher: Dawsons of Pall Mall 1969
8vo. hardcover. 235pp. Two fold-out maps. very good, minor insect damage to cover edges, edge of one map creased with some tiny tears. / No d/w.
Price: $18.00

GRENFELL OF LABRADOR (signed copy)
Johnston, James
Book Number: 3627
ISBN:
Publisher:
London Partridge 1910s?. 8to. Signed on frontspiece by Wilfred Grenfell. Illust. A good copy with foxing throughout, light cover wear and a small indent on back cover.' .
Price: $75.00

The Life And Voyages Of Joseph Wiggins, Modern Discoverer Of The Kara Sea Route To Siberia
Johnson, Henry.
Book Number: 6559
ISBN:
Publisher: London: John Murray, 1907.
8vo. red cloth hardcover. pp. xxiv, 396. 4pp. ads. b/w plates text illus.1 folding map. good, spine faded, light edgewear, owner's inscription on fep.
Price: $45.00

The Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Irving, Washington
Book Number: 22342
ISBN:
Publisher: The Pilot Press, 1949
8vo. small hardcover. 193pp. index. b/w illus. maps. very good. owner's inscription on fep. / good, clipped d/w.
Price: $6.00

Phantom Islands of the Atlantic - The Legends of Seven Lands That Never Were.
Johnson, Donald, S
Book Number: 59789
ISBN: 0285633953
Publisher: Souvenir Press, London 1997
8vo. hardcover. 220pp. index, b/w illus. maps. Very good+. / Very good+ d/w.
Price: $11.00

DR. QUICKSILVER 1660 - 1742. The Life And Times Of Thomas Dover, M.D.
Strong, L. A. G.
Book Number: 1941
ISBN:
Publisher: London:: Andrew Melrose, 1955
Green cloth, no d/w, clean inside. 18 illustrations reproduced in collotype. Appendix, bibliography, extended index. "A successful medical practitioner, born, in 1662, Dover turned aside from his work, became for three years a privateer, shared in the rescue of Alexander Selkirk, returned to medicine with a large fortune in prizre money and the bias which earned him his nickname, to spend his last ative years in violent and sometimes scurrilous medical controversy."
Price: $15.00

Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa (Classics of Exploration)
Selous, Frederick Courteney
Book Number: 50743
ISBN: 705415112
Publisher: Time-Life Books, Belgium, 1984
8vo. Padded leather covered boards, hardcover, gilt edges. 503pp. index, b/w illus, fold-out map. Very good+, book plate on fep., Time life Classics of Exploration slip taped to verso fep. .
Price: $45.00

The Log of Christopher Columbus
Columbus, Columbus (Colon, Cristobal) Translated by Robert H. Fuson
Book Number: 29252
ISBN: 185253043X
Publisher: Ashford, UK. 1987
Oblong 4to hardcover 252pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. From School Library Journal: Columbus' log presents an overwhelming picture of circumnavigation during the 15th Century. The prologue gives an overview of the log; Columbus, the man; and the ships themselves. The actual log chronicles daily activities from August 1492 to March 1493. The seven appendixes in the epilogue complete the picture of Columbus' previous journeys, what he actually discovered in 1492, and a fascinating account of how his remains were shuffled around various cathedrals after his death. The format allows readers to read any part or all parts of the biography that interest them. A clear perspective on a well-known historical event. Anne Paget, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex .
Price: $25.00

The Good Rain: Across Time and Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
Egan, Timothy
Book Number: 24462
ISBN: 0394577248
Publisher: June 1990 Random House
8vo. hardcover. 254pp. very good, / very good d/w.
Price: $12.00

THE CROSSING OF ANTARCTICA The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1955-58
FUCHS, Vivian, & E. Hillary:
Book Number: 62220
ISBN:
Publisher: London, Cassell, 1958
Or. Blue cloth. pp338, maps, colour & black & white plates 1st edition. Very good, light foxing, owner's name verso fep. / Very good d/w with sunned spine.
Price: $15.00

Quest for Adventure: Ultimate Feats of Modern Exploration
Bonington, Chris
Book Number: 42666
ISBN: 0792279530
Publisher: National Geographic 2000
4to hardcover 351pp index, colour illus. very good, small chip on fep / very good d/w.
Price: $10.00

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SCOTT
Mear, Roger and Swan, Robert
Book Number: 56070
ISBN: 0224024183
Publisher: London, Jonathan Cape, 1987.
8vo. hardcover. 306pp. Colour & b/w illus. Very good. / very good.
Price: $10.00

To the Ends of the Earth. Transglobe Expedition 1979-82.
Fiennes, Sir Ranulph
Book Number: 62085
ISBN: 0340252774
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1983. First edition.
Large 8vo. hardcover. 320pp. index, colour & b/w illus. Signed by author.
Price: $45.00

Mad Dogs and Englishmen. An expedition round my family.
Fiennes, Ranulph
Book Number: 61859
ISBN: 9780340925034
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London 2009.
8vo. softcover. 386pp. index, colour illus. Very good+.
Price: $14.00

The Explorations of Pierre Esprit Radisson: From the Original Manuscript in the Bodleian Library and the British Museum
Adams, Arthur T. (Editor)
Book Number: 44605
ISBN:
Publisher: Ross & Haines, Minneapolis, 1961
8vo. hardcover. pp.258,lxxxiv. Very good, good d/w chipped at corners, sunned on spine & top edge.
Price: $18.00

FRANCIS DRAKE
Williams, Neville
Book Number: 3605
ISBN:
Publisher: Book Club Associates london 1973.
4to. 231pp. Illust. Endmaps. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Price: $10.00