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Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K.: The Boydell Press, 1989 Tight copy - no internal markings, clean text pages. Original dustjacket - price clipped. B/w illustrations throughout. "Our medieval ancestors moved about far more than we might expect. The many sources quoted reveal the diversity of the medieval traveller : princes and their armies, pilgrims, merchants and envoys, even fugitives and spies. Norbert Ohler lets the travellers speak for themselves, and from the many sources builds up a picture of what travel was really like - why people travelled, and how they prepared for the journey; means of transport; hospices and inns; and defence against attack and natural hazards, sickness and starvation. Based largely on material from western Europe, although Byzantium, the Far East, the West Indies and the Islamic world are also included, this book offers a fresh and illuminating perspective on a fascinating aspect of the medieval world."

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with slight shelf wear around the top edges of the jacket. Book pages have very slight tanning around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not faired well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.

London, United Kingdom: Secker & Warburg, 1989 230pp. FIRST UK EDITION of Higgins' collection of travel essays. Original dustjacket not price clipped; with age and shelf wear around the edges also has a very small indentation to the front near the spine. Book pages have yellowing around edges (Secker used inferior paper which has not fared well with age). Text pages clean with no internal markings. Ronda Gorge is a collection of Higgins' travel writing over 23 years which are based on his travel diaries and assorted memoirs piecing together the very best. Aidan Higgins is considered one of modern Ireland's greatest writers. His first experimental novel "Langrishe, Go Down" was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1966. Ronda Gorge is now out of print.