Authors starting with T from The Traveller's Bookshelf

8vo Hunter & Longhurst 1917.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 25 photographs on 15 plates and small bibliography. Green cloth, slightly rubbed on edges of spine. viii+252pp. Parfit, Canon of St. George's, Jerusalem and Chaplain in the Lebanon, talks about his 7 years amongst the Druze in the Lebanon and in the mountains of the Hauran, south of Damascus. A historical account of the Lebanon since the troubles in 1860, is followed by an account of the Education Mission set up at Ain Anub and its growth.... more information

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8vo Constable & Co. 1934.. 1st edition. 10 plates. Raspberry cloth, spine a little faded . Slight spotting on edges and a few early leaves. xi+308pp. The sister of Harry de Windt, Margaret married Charles Brooke, the 2nd Rajah of Sarawak who had succeeded his uncle in 1868, in 1869. Her book is an interesting account of life in Sarawak. ... more information

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8vo E P Dutton & Company, New York 1959.. 1st US edition. Frontispiece, 47 plates of 68 photographs and 9 maps (1 folding at rear.) Blue cloth spine on blue decorative boards, pictorial dustwrapper. xvi+326pp. Thesiger's great Arabian journeys including the crossing of the empty quarter. A wonderful book with superb photographs. ... more information

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8vo Longmans 1964.. 1st edition. Frontispiece, 109 photographs and 3 sketch maps. Green cloth, a little speckled, with pictorial dustwrapper. 242pp. Thesiger was in Amara when he was invited to go duck shooting with the Vice Consul. Entering the secret world of the marshes, Thesiger was entranced. 'It was unexpected and delightful and the Marsh people seemed completely untouched by western civilisation. Anyway you could fairly say I went there for a bit of duck shooting and stayed for much of ei... more information

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8vo Frederick Stokes Company, New York 1906.. 1st US edition. Frontispiece, 25 plates, 8 maps (2 folding and 1 folding coloured at rear) and bibliography. Highly decorative yellow cloth. xii+356pp. Small library stamp on front endpaper, title, 1st page of text and end of bibliography, no other marks. A nice, bright copy. The classic account of the exploration of Tibet. The author begins with a physical description of the plateau, its trade routes and passes, and its very early history. He then covers... more information

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8vo George Routledge & Sons Broadway Translations ( 1925).. Cream and orange cloth. lxv+368pp. Manuscripts from the Kanjur group collected in the 1830s from Mongolian monasteries and others collected by a Russian Mission in China in the 1850s. ... more information

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