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By: Etherton, P. T.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Lutterworth Press: 1948
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 3060
A study of three of the world's great deserts, the Sahara, the Kalahari, and the Gobi desert; includes photographs.; 8vo; 184 pp View more info
By: Fairchild, David
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner: 1943
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 917
Travels by this great plant explorer, who worked for many years at the Dept. of Agriculture Office of Plant Introduction. Illustrated with lots of photographs. Fairchild Tropical Gardens outside of Maimi are named after him.; 8vo; 239 pp View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: Washington, U.S. Dept of Interior: 1975
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 912
National Survey of Historic Sites and Buildings, v. 13 Numerous illustratio ns, maps, etc.; 8vo; 429 pp View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New York, Viking: 1986
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 4599
A history of exploration from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, particularly exploration of North America. An excellent overview.; 8vo; 528 pp View more info
By: Hiney, Tom
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr: 2000
Edition: 1st American Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 7845
In 1821, thirty years after its founding, the London Missionary Society deputized George Bennet and Daniel Tyerman to visit and report on stations as far-flung as Johannesburg, Tahiti, and Canton. For many of the missionaries abroad, it would be their first contact from home in years. Tyerman and Bennet encountered storms, pirates, and tigers and negotiated relationships with powerful kings and the sailors and slave traders who were their countrymen but whose actions ... View more info
By: Inman, Henry & William F. Cody
Price: $28.00
Publisher: Minneapolis, Ross & Haines: 1966
Edition: Limited Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 6675
Limited edition of 1500 copies of this classic history of exploration and travel in the American West; 8vo; 529 pp View more info
By: James, Ben
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Reynal & Hitchcock: 1934
Seller ID: 7023
The author travelled through Afghanistan in the early 1930's when it was forbidden territory. Includes b&w photographs; 8vo; 295 pp View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Garden City, Garden City Publishing: (1927)
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 2842
"The works written by himself a the age of seventy-three and the life, with such of his philosophy as is the gift of age and experience, taken down here and edited by Ethelreda Lewis. An incredible narrative of an adventurer/trader along the Ivory Coast in the late 19th century. Great reading!!; 8vo; 302 pp View more info
By: Moorehead, Alan
Price: $8.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1960
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 5197
Classic story of the exploration and exploitation of Central Africa, from the slaving days of the 1850's to the final conquest of the Nile in 1900 ; 8vo; 385 pp View more info
By: Moorehead, Alan
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1962
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 5886
The story of western exploration and expansion into the regions along the Nile River valley; 8vo; 308 pp View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Random House: 1985
Edition: Book Club Edition
Seller ID: 6384
Fascinating survey of some of the men and women and their lives in the far reaches of the British Empires at the turn of the century; numerous photographs and illustrations; 8vo; 255 pp View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Viking: 2003
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
Seller ID: 7214
A first rate history of the Wilkes Expedition; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 452 pp View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution Pr: 1988
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 1753
Reprinted in the series "Exploring the American West." Originally published in 1852 as "Exploration and Survey of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, including a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains"; 8vo; 421 pp View more info
Price: $12.50
Publisher: New York, Dover: [1962]
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 1985
Includes fold-out map and illustrations. Nice Dover re-print of the original work first published by Harper & Brothers in 1843.; 8vo; 303 + 336 pp View more info
By: Strasser, Roland
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smi: 1930
Seller ID: 4120
Translated from the German by "R.T.G." Introduction by Sir Michael Sadler. The author travelled widely through Mongolia & Tibet during the 1920's and documented life in this region during this time of unrest and unprecedented change. Fascinating reading. Includes many of the author's sketches.; 8vo; 347 pp View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, New Home Library: 1943
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 6245
An account of the early conquistadores and "the whole vivid spectacle of these men and their relentless enslavement of the New World. "; 8vo; 389 pp View more info
By: Viola, Herman J. & Carolyn Margolis (editors)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution: 1991
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 7476
Chronicles the revolutionary effects of Columbus's discovery of America on the cultures of the New and Old worlds. Included are essays on how American food crops--maize, potatoes and tomatoes--changed the agricultural patterns and dietary habits of Europe; how the importation of cattle, horses and sheep from Spain transformed the ecology of the American hemisphere; "the human liking for the taste of sweetness" and its implications for sugar production in the New ... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, AMS Press: 1968
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 6010
A nice facsimile reprint of the 1854 edition; 8vo; 508 pp View more info
