Search Results: Travel Literature from RSM BOOKS

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1954. 268 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author with a personal dedication to the previous owner on the half-title page, minor foxing on edges. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1953. 239 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author with a personal dedication to the previous owner on ffep, bookplate on verso of fep, foxing on edges. This book deals with parts of uncontrolled New Guinea; it is the kind of book that can be written authentically and published adequately only if, first , it has been facilitated – and what a thin stick of a word that is for all the help I have had. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1952. 240 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by author with a personal note to the previous owner on half-title page, dust jacket worn. This is the cheerful record of Clune's impressions, which range over a wide variety of scenes, history, and great personages.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1956. 605 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, d/j chipped on corners and spine, also scuffed along edges,large closed tear on d/j front. Presenting Japan as it is today, this is both a fascinating and important book; fascinating in the picture it gives of the country "upstairs" from Australia; important in its clarification of Japanese character and Japanese attitudes to the democratic ideal so alien to Old Japan.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Simpson Claire. 8vo.

London: Macdonald, 1962. 224 pp, b/w illustrations, signed by the author on free endpaper, foxing on edges, d/j slightly bumped on spine and corners. This is the first-hand story of a foreign correspondent's life at the heart of Asian Communism. The author describes his extensive journeys through the industrial cities of Manchuria and the communes with their myriad ant-like workers. He tells of his contacts - and conflicts - with Chinese officialdom, and vividly conveys the almost pathological mistrust which the Chinese feel towards foreigners; even those foreigners who are themselves Communists.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1953. 271 pp, illustrated, signed by author with a personal note to the previous owner on the half-title page, dust jacket frayed on top edges. Clune has been off again on another of his modern voyages of exploration - this time to Holland. Since the Dutch played a great part in discovering Australia 350 years ago, he argues, it was perhaps appropriate for an Australian now to 'discover' Holland. This is the log book of his travels.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Illus. by Zimmerman Bert. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1971. 605 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, flatsigned by the author on the half-title page, d/j price-clipped. Presents a vivid, up-to-the-minute picture of this land of infinite variety. It is a fascinating, fact-packed account based on 35,000 miles of recent travel and on sound research.. Signed by Author. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1971. 605 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on the half title page, with a personal dedication to the previous owner. Presents a vivid, up-to-the-minute picture of this land of infinite variety. It is a fascinating, fact-packed account based on 35,000 miles of recent travel and on sound research.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1993. 220 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on the title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner. This entertaining and irreverent romp around the planet brings together wry commentary, perceptive social observation and revealing profiles of the curious characters Baker has encountered as one of Australia's most celebrated wanderers.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989. 226 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by author with a personal note on first title page, endpapers illustrated with maps, d/j price-clipped, foxing on edges, This is the story of Kashmir as it appears in travel literature and historical writings from ancient times to the 20th century.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sydney: Australian Geographic, 1996. 256 pp, colour illustrations, flatsigned by Don and Margie McIntyre on the title page. This graphic account of the couple's year at Cape Denison, based on their detailed diaries and logs, is a study in grit and determination in the face of conditions that few humans ever encountered. Margie and Don are two sides of a coin: they have their differences but they make a formidable unit. Their year in Antarctica was a triumph of organisation, but without the will and strength to see it through, it would have failed, perhaps disastrously.. Signed by Authors. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Australia: Angus & Robertson, 1966. 366 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, d/j chipped on spine with a 2 cm tear on d/j rear, tiny tear on d/j front. A handsome book with a Midnight Sun glow to it, The Viking Circle takes in not only the four Scandinavian countries but Iceland and Greenland as well. Simpson is perceptive and entertaining as well as expertly informative in a book that is invaluable for the intending tourist, a delight for the armchair traveller, and makes a splendid gift.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Australia: World Life Books, 1984. 226 pp, b/w and colour illustrations, signed by the author on half-title page with a personal dedication to the previous owner, flap marks on endpapers, slight foxing to edges, bottom edges bumped. This book documents true adventures in exotic lands and in the exploration of the oceans, as the author and his youthful assistants research along Australia's Great Barrier Reef, in Northern Scotland, and in Morocco and Egypt.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.