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London: Ward Lock & Co., Limited No Date. Fourteenth Edition...Revised. With Large Plan of the City, Plans of the Bois De Boulogne, Versailles, The Louvre and Numerious Illustrations. This book contains a fund of knowledge and delightful reading. A list of illustrations provided...photo plates and plans. Three fold-out maps are present (one of which shows an internally mended tear). Bright cherry-red cloth boards. Gilt title print to front board and spine. Ribbon bookmark. Photo illustrated price-intact dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear to extremities and rubbing. A sound, firm copy.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Methuen & Co., Ltd.,London/Reginald Saunders, Toronto, 1944 (to Title page) Fifth Canadian Edition October, 1944. Illustrated Edition. Book Good Plus. No dust jacket. Hardcover. Ten chapters are offered, postscript and index. A generous list of illustrations provided....a number of the photos taken by Mr H.V. Morton. While this book shows edgewear to board extremities, it remains firm, complete and most serviceable.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

New York: Random House, 1968. . Mr. Michener had spent much time in Spain. His extensive travel and deep study there have given him abundantly the knowledge and insight on which to base this monumental book that he had for so long wanted to write. It is informal, discursive, anecdotal, and highly entertaining. There is a wealth of information about Spain from prehistoric times to the present day. The reader will find much about the history and development of Spain.... Photographs by Robert Vavra enhances the text. Index provided. Map endpapers, rear endpapers show-The Rulers of Spain. Light wear to book extremities. A square respectable copy. No GST on Canadian orders. A heavy volume.. BOMC Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1953 (c.1953) Book Very Good in a Fair Dust Jacket. Out of a journey through the East comes this revealing and warmly personal book about the problems and hopes of peoples now coming of age. Illustrated with 32 pages of photographs. This is a chronicle of a five month trip that carried Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to Lebanon, Syria, Jordon, Israel, Pakistan, India and Indonesia. Traveling with her as we do in this book, we see not only the problems of the East, but the thrilling challenge, heroic purpose and inspiring triumphs. Front endpapers make up a two-page spread of ' The Middel East'. A sound copy. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1970. 382(+1) pp. Here is the book which will take you to many islands all over the world... brooding, happy, volcanic, desert, mythical, holy, primitive islands etc. The Manley's make them come alive with folklore, legends and stories. The book is a meeting place for all who are fascinated by Islands, for all curious about islands and for all who want to escape to an island. Liberally illustrated with b/w photos and drawings. It has a bibliography and index. A bright clean book in a price-clipped dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

Clarke,Irwin & Company, 1964. This book describes one of the longest journeys ever made in Soviet Russia by a writer without political bias. Colonel Van der Post's story is of a journey into the hearts of the Russians and places visited from Moscow to Tackkent, Samarkand and Bukara, Baku and Tbilsi, Kiev and Moscow to Siberia and back. The author makes it possible for the reader to share in the fullest degree his own pleasure, shock, and discovery. A pull-out map in colour of the author's journey is attached to rear ep. Map in excellent condition. Name to ffep. Illustrated price intact dust jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Boston: Houghton,Mifflin Company, 1983. Theroux's narrative presents a vivid picture of a complex country and her people with tart irony, humor, sympathy, and insight. Those familiar with this great country will gain a surprising new perspective as they explore the coasts of Britain with Theroux. Endpaper map by John V. Morris. Price-clipped photo wrap-around dust jacket. A clean, bright most respectable copy..... a good read.. ISBN: 0-395-34645-2. First Edition, Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Great Britain Description and Travel 1971 + Railroad Travel +Great Britain + British Coastal Travel + Travel + West Somerset Railway + West Cumbria Line + Northfolk Railway + Hastings + Bognor Regis + Ise of Wight + Plymouth + Barnstaple + Ulster + Londonderry. Catalogs: Travel.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1952. The story of a daring voyage by the author and five companions on board a primitive raft from the coast of Peru to the Pacific Islands. Mr. Heyerdahl was convinced that the original Polynesians had come by sea from South America, and to prove that such a voyage was possible at that remote period, he and his party built the Kon-Tiki, similar to the rafts then used, and enbarked on it. A daring enterprise, indeed, and a most fascinating travel book. Orange-gold cloth boards, decoration to front board. No ownership markings. Photographs accompany text. A generous list of illustrations provided. The bottom of front board and spine show some darkening. The illustrated dust jacket remains bright.. Senenteenth Impression. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

Tanko-shinsha Co, Ltd., 1963. 210 pp with erratum. The photographs and text in this book originated in a series which ran for two years in the Kyoto pages of the Japanese language Asahi newspaper. The series was later published in two volumes in Japanese. This is the English translation. Beautiful b/w photographs. Map eps. Book bright and clean.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston,New York: Houghton,Mifflin Company, 1928. With illustrations. 297 pp + 1 unpaginated. Frontispiece is that of " The Tomb of Confucius At Chufu." Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, the missionary whose name will always be associated with Newfoundland and Labrador has written of his experiences on his travels. The content of the book begins with " First Impressions of Egypt etc. and ends with chapter twenty, " The Japanese." The text is profusely photo illustrated on heavy semi-gloss paper. All illustrations are present and in excellent condition. Red cloth boards with gilt print to front and spine. Backstrip is sunned and gilt dulled. Bookplate to fep. Untrimmed fore-edge. Normal edgewear. A clean copy written by an extraordinary individual.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: William Heinemann, 1947. Norman Wright, F.R.G.S. was military attache to the Mexican government during the war. This is no mere travel book, but a condensed, documented, compactly reasoned book of fact, dealing with Mexican racial problems, industries, politics, art, architecture and fauna. Frontispiece is a photograph of "Mexico City's Paseo de la Reforma, looking from Chapultepec towards the city centre". Foreword by the author. The seven chapters conclude with an appendix and index. The appendix offers "Works on Mexico (other than novels) by British authors in chronological order". A generous list of illustrations provided. 24 pages of illustrations. B/w photographs are on heavier semi-gloss stock. Black boards with silver decoration to front board and silver title print to spine. Off-setting to endpapers. No ownership markings. A sound copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1976. When the author of this remarkable book arrives in Moscow as an American graduate student, he soon comes face to face with a country where the terms of his trade,'paradigms', party structure and intergroup pressures no longer apply. The book is the reminiscences of what the author saw, heard and felt. It is reportage of his Russian friend's lives and of his observations. A small part of the "author's" note reads, "To modify Christopher Isherwood on his rendering of Berlin forty years ago, it is a record more of what happened than of what might have happened to me abroad." Blue boards with gilt to spine. Lovely photo jacket. A clean, square copy - no owner markings or inscriptions.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Doubleday & Co. Inc., 1954. Preface by Raymond Coche Chief of the French Mountaineering Mission to the Hoggar 1935. In the vast granite range of the Tefedest Massif in the Hoggar region of the Sahara, earlier French explorers had discovered the site of amazingly beautiful prehistoric drawings. The authors , two young French archeologists, along with a photographer, an artist and a few tempermental but charming natives were determined to rediscover the site. They achieved complete success but only at the espense of learning the ways of the desert. The story of their mission makes fascinating reading and has been written with contagious enthusiasm for the mysterious, desolate Sahara and a good-humored understanding of the people who inhabit it. Illustrated with maps, illustrations and b/w photos. Glossary of native words. Photographic price-intact dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Walker and Company, 1972. It has been said that God made heaven and earth but the Dutch made Holland. This is the story of the nation they created. An invaluable account of the country.....expert, inclusive, affectionate without being partial. Prime reading for those travelling in the country with almost any solid purpose in mind. The contents offer ten chapters, notes on the text, select bibliography, acknowledgements, who's who, and index. Illustrated by 26 numbered b/w plates. Red boards with gilt title print to spine. No ownership markings....no inscriptions! Price-intact photo dust jacket: Canal at Delft. Max Schuchart is well known in the Netherlands as a poet. He has translated many books into Dutch, including Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings." An immaculate tight copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Sydney, Australia: Australian & New Zealand Book Company, 1976. R.J. Johnston - Professor of Geography at Sheffield University in England and a former resident of New Zealand, considers New Zealand society as it really is - how it evolved and how it is currently organized, how its members work and relax, their living and social conditions, and their relationships with the beautiful islands they inhabit. Eight informative chapters, bibliography, a list of illustrations and index provided. This book will act as a comprehensive and practical guide to life abroad. A bright, clean copy in a photo dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. In this book the author attempts to give a picture of the Edinburgh of today with the chiaroscuro of its past. The romance of the ancient town did not vanish with its swords, nor even with the passong of the tall hat; glamour descends still upon its ridges every night. By good guidance the author's perambulations extended to the interiors of seventeenth and eighteenth century skyscrapers and mansions of the Old Town, once the homes of Edinburgh gentry and now tenanted by the very poor: and he was able to see what relics of elegance and harmony remain in them. Illustrated by 16 full- pageb/w illustrations by E.S. Lumsden, all in excellent condition. Name to ffep. Discoloration from dried flower laid in. An informative volume of work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair.

Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1990. Michener writes about his two-week trip to Poland and Rome in 1988 and finds every moment filled with political, spiritual and personal meanings. His meeting with Lech walesa, meeting a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Union who penciled a Russian translation of "The Source" into notebooks, and his dining with the Pope. All of these stories - and many more- are beautifully told in this book. Cream color boards with copper print to spine. Gift inscription to ffep. Illustrated price-clipped dust jacket. A very nice copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

London: Collins, 1981. . The author shares with the reader a year of exploration and a journey in the form of a clockwise tour around England, Wales and Scotland starting from Yorkshire. His journey took him to highlands and islands, fenland, wood and heaths, rivers, canals, old industrial sites, estuaries and coastlines. By drawing every page on location from life he has tried to capture the freshness and variety of the British countryside. As a freelance illustrator as well as a writer....his beautiful drawings in colour will add much pleasure for the reader. The contents offer an introduction, six chapters, index of places and index of species. It covers Eastern England in July.....Downlands and Weald, Aug to October..... The West Country, Oct-Feb..... The Midlands, March..... Wales and the Northwest, April-May..... Scoltand and Northumbria, May-July. Dark brown boards. Gilt title print to spine. Decorated endpapers. No ownership markings. A lovely bright book in its illustrated bright dust… Leer más

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1988. If you want to understand China, take the train - as the author did - in every province of the People's Republic, from the searing gobi of western Xinjiang to the frozen wastes of Manchuria. The result is the most beguiling and revealing book on China travels since the adventures of Marco Polo. In 'Riding The Iron Rooster' the author's practiced eye, adventurous spirit, and rich prose produce a vital memoir, full of people and talk - warm outspoken conversations about the private life of China today, the Cultural Revolution and Mao, and the thousand details of everyday life. Map endpapers. Price-intact photo illustrated dust jacket.. ISBN: 0-399-133309-7. First Edition,Fourth Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Train Travel + Railroad Travel China + Journeys China + China + Non Fiction + Mongolia + Shanghai + Peking + The Iron Rooster + Manchuria. Catalogs: Travel.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., 1964. ' Highway To The Sun' Series. Published in association with the BP Touring Service. . All roads, they say, lead to Rome. The one Stanley Baron takes is possibly the most varied in all Europe."...it is as much a journey through history as through landscape." This book offers 14 chapters, postscript and index. A generous list of illustrations provided. They include 33 beautiful plates and 4 maps. Orange cloth boards with gilt print to spine. No ownership markings. Sticker residue to ffep. Price-intact dust jacket is a photograph reproduction by L. Alsford. Map-illustrated back panel to dust jacket. A solid, clean copy.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.