Exploration from Ariel Books

London, United Kingdom: George Allen & Unwin, 1958. Tan bds with crisp Silver title (unworn with sharp cnrs) pp 367 with 62 colour photo illus and 6 line illus and maps. Tight and very clean, small name to ffep, eps have very light foxing. DJ is unworn in original Brodart protect, sl tape residue to edge as a consequnce, price clipped.. ISBN: 0000000000. 4th Impression. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Pacific Exploration. Catalogs: Exploration.... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: Hamish Hamilton, 1963. In 1963 Moorehead received the Royal Society of Literature Award for Cooper's Creek and many other literary awards. "The state of Victoria had been established for less than ten years when the Burke & Wills expedition was first planned. In this short period, Melbourne had progressed from a lawless port town, as almost all men left for the goldfields around Ballarat and Bendigo, to become the most significant city in Australia. Through all this ther... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: Cassell & Co , 1956. Further titled. A Spanish possession in North West Africa, to some adjacent islands and certain other sites in the 28th degree of the northern latitude which are not, without some measure of personal perseverance open to uninstructed members of the general public. Describes travelling through the Rio de Oro later the Spanish Sahara, Southern Morocco, Ifni and the Canary Islands. Written by a journalist it covers the interesting personalities he met, esoteric ... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: William Kimber, 1953. Maufrais had been a paratrooper in Indochina and he received France's Croix de Guerre for valor while fighting with French guerrilla forces during the Nazi occupation of France. In 1950 disappeared in the jungle of Guyana a young explorer Toulon, Raymond Maufrais victim to his thirst for adventure. No one saw him alive or not found his body, in February of 1950 an Indian found his equipment and a manuscript of notes of his day to day experiences. CONDITION G... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: Souvenir Press, 1958. Written by a BBC journalist. Exploration of the Malayan hinterland searching for the fabulous lost city of Chini, canoeing through terrorists guns down the Sungei Neggiri, lone expedition to Malayas most inaccessible lake looking for prehistoric monsters, recording miracles of Malayan Magicians, dangerous expedition to the upper reaches of the Teram where no one had returned alive to this date. CONDITION Green bds are unworn with slight toning to spine head, 195... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: Souvenir Press, 1959. Adventures not for the faint hearted. Green bds with bright Gilt title (fresh and unworn, sl indent top front edge) pp 175 with 30 b/w photo illustrations, bright and clean, not inscribed. Original illustrated wrapper has mild edge wear at top and spine ends, not price clipped.. ISBN: 0000000000. First English. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Amazon Jungle South America. Catalogs: Exploration.... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: T Fisher Unwin , 1899. George Lewis Becke (1848-1913) was an Australian short-story writer and novelist. In 1869, Becke travelled to San Francisco with his brother Vernon and was away for nineteen months. At 16 years of age, Becke was a stowaway on a ship bound for Samoa. In Apia he took a job as a book-keeper. When Becke was 18, he met William "Bully" Hayes who later became a central character in Becke's writings. After being shipwrecked in 1874, Becke was later arrest... Read More

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Auckland, New Zealand: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1926. Not Dated (1926 BL) Covers early exploration of Balboa, Cortez, Pizarro, Dampier, D'Urville, Tasman, Cook etc. CONDITION Green cloth over heavy card decorated with Sailing ships, Blck titles (nice and clean) 144 pages with 17 illus plates and 3 maps (tight and mostly clean with some edge browning and odd finger mark to pages). ISBN: 0000000000. Decorative Cloth. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Balboa, Cortez, Pizarr... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: Warne, 1960. Very tight and clean copy. Pub blue cloth embossed boards and spine. Charts FFEP and EP illus. The story of exploration.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Norman Buchanan. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962. The story of an 1959 expedition to what was then Dutch New Guinea of which little was known of this then unmapped area. CONDITION Grey bds with bright Gilt title (fresh and unworn) map eps, 318 pages with 23 line drawings and maps plus 48 pages of b/w photo's. A nice tight copy with clean text block (light fore edge foxing) Original DJ is foxied to inside with sl rubbed spine ends els fresh in plastic protection. Contains 3 newspaper articles laid in, one in... Read More

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London, United Kingdom: Victor Gollancz, 1967. "Exploration in Greenland; on skis over the ice; by canoe on the fjords; with children in an Eskimo encampment, by the first woman to cross the Greenland ice cap." CONDITION Brown bds with crisp Gilt title (fresh and unworn, cnrs sharp) pp 191with 28 b/w photo illus and 2 maps, tight and clean copy, not inscribed (faint odd fox spot to eps) Original DJ is unworn and not price clipped (sl creased top edge). ISBN: 0000000000. First Edition. Hard Cover. ... Read More

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Boston, USA: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. "The story of John Bartram, a contemporary of Benjamin Franklin. A man of little formal education but with a great interest in plants. His skill in finding specimens, identifying them, and sending them to the new world earned him a reputation as America's most noted naturalist." Pale Green bds illustrated in Black with a Frontiersman and an Indian guide (fresh and unworn) pp 296 with nice woodblock illustrations (bright and clean, not inscribed) Original wr... Read More

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U S A: Houghton Mifflin Not Dated. John Muir (1838 - 1914) was an American naturalist and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. His activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. CONDITION Covers have faded spine and mild handling wear, pp xx 332 with nice wood block illus by Henry Bugbee Kane. Bright and crisp copy. . Re-Issue. Soft Cover. Very Good/N/A. 8vo - over 7¾... Read More

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