Resultados de búsqueda: Adventure/Expeditions from 100 POCKETS

New York, NY: Taplinger Publishing, 1961. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Rolf Blomberg (Author-Photographer). Text/Bright, clean, As New. Red linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/Good; intact w/nips, chips, small losses, & faint creasing to edges; rubs to edges & surfaces; and showing discoloration/soiling; price sticker strike-out to front inner flap. Adventure/expedition. First published 1958 in Swedish; this is the first American printing. Travel narrative of explorer, naturalist, author and documentary filmmaker Rolf Blomberg's (1912 - 1996) visit to the insulated Chavante (also Xavante) people of central Brazil.

London, UK: BBC Books, 1992. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. HARDCOVER. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace sticker removal scar to rear cover verso. DJ under mylar. First Edition, First Thus. Autobiography/memoir. Account of three expeditions travelling first the river's two sources, and then the final length of the Amazon River by South Africa-born adventurer Francois Odendaal. Map precedes trips: 1, 1981 Urubama, Scared River of the Incas; 2, 1985 Apurimac, The Lord Oracle; and, 3, 1991 To the River's End, followed by Epilogue. Journeys featured in the 1992 BBC1 television series, "Classic Adventure".

New York, NY: St Martins Press, 1997. First Edition, 5th Printing . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW COPY w/a whisper of edge wear to dustjacket. Faint discoloration (publisher's flaw?) to back of white boards. An account and analysis of the Mt Everest climb of May, 1996 when twelve mountaineers lost their lives in one of the great tragedies in the mountaining history of Everest. Collaborative work by expert and heroic Russian head expedition guide Anatoli Bourkreev (1958 - 1997), and, writer & investigative film-maker G. Weston DeWalt. Volume draws on Boukreev's expedition logs, personal journals, letters and reflections. A thought provoking and sobering account.

New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1962. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. New/New. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Stated First Edition. DJ/ with trace wear/under mylar. History of the ill-fated 1957 climb of Eiger, and a daring rescue, the circumstances of which are plagued by mysteries. The Eiger is a "living" mountain is under constant change (unstable weather, disintegrating limestone surfaces resulting in frequent avalanches, and perpetual fall of rocks and ice). These conditions are amplified on its north wall; one of the deadliest climbs in the world and having claimed so many lives it is called Mordwand (German for 'murderous wall'. In the fateful year of 1957, four climbers men set out ... two Italian (Claudio Corti and Stefano Longhi) and two German (Franz Meyer and Gunther Nothdurft). Nothdurft is not well, Longhi falls and can't be lifted up, and Corti is struck by falling stone. Corti is left w/tent and provisons while Meyer and Northdurft continue with the climb.… Leer más

New York, NY: William Morrow, 1996. First American Edition, 1st Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. Text/BRAND NEW. Green boards/NF w/trace edge rubs. DJ/Fine. Trace soiling to lower text edge. First US Edition, First Printing. Historical narrative & modern travelogue with maps & illustrations. In 1595 Sir Walter Ralegh, with a motley crew of some one hundred Englishmen, rowed up a river in South America in search of the lost golden city of El Dorado. Four hundred years afterwards in 1992, historian Charles Nicholl follows the same route from the delta of the Orinoco River up to the Guiana highlands of southern Venezuela. A modern travelogue interwoven with historical records. Fine copy.

New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEW/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Non-fiction narrative. A story of life and death. 4 men aboard a 13 foot long, 4 foot wide and 20 inch deep afloat in the seas off South Africa surviving crew of the yacht Migonette that had set sal from Southampton, England with Australia in mind.

Vancouver/Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 1982. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine w/trace wear. PO label to fEP. First published 1974, by E. P. Dutton. This is the First Paper Back Edition with errata. The story of the heroic and legendary feat of engineer John Denison (1917 - 2001), who so perfected the art of constructing ice roads, was able to create a network of winter ice roads throughout the Canadian Northwest Territories to service various mines. "It was taken for granted that when John Denison and his road crews went out on the Ice Road they wouldn't freeze, and their adventures there became instant northern legends. Denison's reputation for going any place to make a road and hauling over it any freight that could be fastened to the back of a lowboy trailer truck, even a two-story house thirty feet wide hanging eleven feet out over each side, inspired assorted characterizations. He has been called an… Leer más

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Anchor Books, 1999. First Edition, First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine/None as Issued. Text/BRAND NEW & showing trace margin discoloration. Soft cover/NF. First Edition, First Printing. Biography of Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell (1868 - 1926). An English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator in Arabia, and archaeologist, who, along with T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), was a vital player in the creation of modern Middle Eastern history.

Ann Arbor, MI: Univ Microfilms/Xerox Company, 1966. Facsimile Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/None as Issued. EX-LIB/UNCIRCULATED Copy. Loan pocket to fEP. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Silver/gilt embossed blue linen boards/NF. Originally written in Latin (sadly, now lost). Our copy is a facsimile reproduction of the English edition of 1672, translated by Sir William Talbot, secretary to the province of Maryland. Record of explorations of the Piedmont and the Blue Ridge Mountains undertaken in 1869 & 1870 by German explorer John Lederer in his efforts to find a route west over the Appalachian Mountains. Primary source material of encounters with Native American Indians enroute.

New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's, 1947. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Illustrated green linen boards/Fine. DJ/NF w/nips, chips & small losses to edges. PO name to first title page. Maps to endpapers. Frontispiece: Photo portrait of the Conways. The year, 1937; the place, Carmel, California. Ainslie Conway (1893 -), veteran of foreign wars against Moros in the Philippines, Pancho Villa in Mexico, and the Bonches at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood, was seriouslu ill after a bout of working as a miner. Frances could only take on jobs as cook or gardner until school began and she could resume teaching highschool English. Down-and-out, the Conways focused on the Galapagos with dreams of living in the Encantadas for six months, which became 5 years and permanent. Una historia muy encantada and an enchanted moment in time.

New York, NY: Oxford Univ Press, 1974. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Good; strong & sound w/nicks to leading edges of faded backstrap, and two soil spots to front. DJ/None. Tangerine endpapers. Volume II of a 2-volume history of European discovery of the Americas by historian, Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison (1887 - 1976) who specialized in maritime history and received two Pulitzer Prizes ("Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus", 1942; & "Christopher Columbus, Marine", 1955). This volume, with 31 chapters, begins with the first voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492 and concludes with the Dutch discovery of Cape Horn, 1598 - 1616. Strong copy less dust jacket.

London, UK: George Allen & Unwin, 1957. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New. Blue linen boards/VG; strong & sound w/discoloration to edges. DJ/None. Bookdealer sticker to rear cover verso. First published 1956, Switzerland under the title: Gipfel Uber Den Wolken. Chronicle of the first climb of Lhotse, Nepal/China, 4th highest peak in the world, 1956. One of the most successful expeditions in the history of the Himalayas, the memoir is penned by expedition leader and elite mountaineer Albert Eggler (1913 - 1998), long admired for his leadership and management skills.Strong copy less dustjackets.

New York, NY: Viking Press, 1990. First Edition, First Pinting . Hardcover. Near Fine/New. BRAND NEW Copy w/remainder mark to lower text edge. Dustjacket under mylar. Map to endpapers. Exploration of the Amazon River from the discovery of Brazil in 1500 to the the early 1900s. Beginning w/Christmas, 1541, when Francisco de Orellano, and 57 Spanish soldiers, set off downstream from the headwaters of the Amazon in Ecuador to reach the Atlantic Ocean nine months later. 9 chapters w/illustrations: 1, Pedro Cabral: Stumbling Upon Brazil; 2, Francisco de Orellana: First Down the Amazon; 3, Lope de Aguirre: Who Killed Even His Dream; 4, Pedro de Teixeira : Making the Amazon Portugese; 5, Charles Marie de la Dondamine: Equatorial Scientists; 6, Monsieur & Madame Godin: And Their Separation; 7, Baron von Humbolt: Inspiration to the World; 8, Spruce & Wickham: Collectors Extraordinary; and, 9, Julio Arana: King of the Putumayo, followed by Postscripts.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1987. First Edition, First Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/New. BRAND NEW & COLLECTIBLE. Smithsonian art historian & curator Herman J. Viola "explores" America's westward expansion. Volume, supported by archival illustrations, examines the subject in depth. Noting the U.S. Government's very large role, it begins w/Lewis and Clark, and ends with the exploration of Alaska. 256 pgs in 9 chapters: 1, Introduction; 2, Jefferdpm'd Vision; 3, From Sea to Shining Sea; 4, The Great Reconnaissance; 5, "Arsenic & Directions"; 6, Megatheria at Large; 7, The Last Frontier; 8, End of an Era; and 9, Toward a New Sensibility.

San Francisco, CA: China Books & Periodicals, 1989. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. How-Man Wong (Author-Photographer). BRAND NEW Copy w/trace shelf wear to dust jacket. Travel narrative. Chronicle of explorer and photojournalist Wong How Man (1949 - ) is an explorer and photojournalist of China, and founder and president of the China Exploration & Research Society (CERS), who, in his 1985 National Geographic expedition, led the team that found what is now internationally recognized to be the true source of the Yangtze River. This volume documents some 18 months of travel from the River's mouth in Shanghai to its origins in the Tibetan plateau.

Norman, OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1963. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. Brick red linen boards/NF w/trace rubs to upper spine edge. DJ/NF w/small loss to lower spine, now under mylar. Label remove scars to both front & rear covers verso. History of western America. Detailed account of the history of southwestern half of Wyoming, the southeastern corner Idaho, southeastern Oregon, southern California, and almost all of Nevada. Here the Spanish paved overland routes to connect their Arizona and New Mexico settlements with California in the age of fur hunting. The Great Basin area was opened by white men in 1776 by Fremont's 2nd Expedition. 254 pgs,, 10 chapters w/archival maps.

New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2001. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Soft cover. Fine/None as Issued. BRAND NEW Copy. A travel narrative well described by the book's sub-title. At a moment of personal crisis, author and journalist Jeffrey Taylor quits Moscow to recreate British explorer Henry Stanley's legendary trip down the Congo River in a dugout canoe. He travels with Desi, a Zairean who knows the riverway well, and later with a soldier for protection. An exciting travel narrative, a quest for personal meaning of life, and a portrait of contemporary Democratic Republic of Congo, especially those living along the River..

New York, NY: Bantam/Grosset & Dunlap, 1966. First Edition, 4th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW. Softcover/VG; strong w/shelfwear to edges & surface. PO name to front cover verso. Vintage science fiction. Adventures of 4 men a a woman, reduced to microscopic size, traveling in a mini atomic sub, and allotted a limited 60 mintues to explore the body of a dying man. The story has multiple authors. This 1966 Bantam paperback is written by Issac Asmov ((1920 - 1992), biochemiistry professor at Boston Univ. Book was released 6 months before the 1966, 20th Century Fox film version (same title) of the film directed by Richard Fleischer, screenplay by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement & Jerome Bixby. As the book was published first, many assigned sole authorship to Asimov. 186 pgs in 18 chapters. Voyage explores human physiology through arteries & capillaries, lymphatic nodes, the heart & lungs, the brain, the ear & eye, and the function of… Leer más

London, UK: Cherry Tree Book/Withy Grove Press. Unstated . Soft Cover/Stiched. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/VG; Near New w/faint margin discoloration. Illustrated soft cover/NF. No publication date; Preface dated 1933. Adventur/expedition. Chronicle of the first successful flight over Everest. The early 1930's marked a historic era of aviation 'firsts'. Lindbergh's Atlantic crossing and Byrd's reach to the poles sparked the race to fly over Everest. This is the story of how England earned that fame. Funded by Lady Houston, the acheivement is known as the Houston-Mount Everest Expedition. 10 chapters: I, First Over Everest; II, Preliminary Steps in Technical Planning; III, Oxygen on the Everest Flight; IV, Air Photographic Survey; V, The Flight to India; VI, Nepal; VII, The Flight to Everest; VIII, The Flight Over Kangchenjunga & the Second Flight to Everest; IX, Filming the Flight; and, X, The Authors' Appreciation of Those Who Contributed to the Success of the… Leer más

New York, NY: National Travel Club, 1934. First American Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Stated First American Edition. Text/Bright, clean As New. Gilt embossed black linen boards/VG; Strong & sound w/light rubs to corner tips & upper/lower spine, and fading to spine. DJ/None. PO label to front cover verso, and name & date to fEP. Photographs of the two participating Westland aircraft to endpapers. Frontispiece: Photo taken 100 feet above Everest. Chronology of the Everest Flight precedes text. Aircraft used were the original PV-6 prototype, registered G-ACBR (and also known as the Houston-Wallace) along with the Westland PV-3 G-ACAZ. Both airplanes were modified to inclued heating and oxygen equipment, fully enclosing the rear cockpits and using highly supercharged Bristol Pegasus IS.3 engines. Text, supported by photos, in 10 chapters: I, The Challenge of Everest!; II, Strategy & Preliminary Tactics; III, Final Tactics & Objectives; IV, The Flight to… Leer más