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BONES OF THE MASTER George Crane - A Journey to Secret Mongolia See photos & details
BONES OF THE MASTER George Crane - A Journey to Secret Mongolia
A scarce book on Mongolia. Having fled Red Army troops in 1959, monk Tsung Tsai persuades his American neighbor--40 years later--to travel with him back to his birthplace at the edge of the Gobi desert. Their search takes them from frontier towns, mud villages, and lost temples to a remote mountain cave and deep into the heart of zen.
Price: AUD $10.00
BRAZILIAN INTERIOR Kenneth Matthews (Brazil) See photos & details
BRAZILIAN INTERIOR Kenneth Matthews (Brazil)
A vintage Brazil travel book from 1956.
Price: AUD $5.00
BUSH SAFARI Knocking Around the Outback by Rex Ellis ~ Australia See photos & details
BUSH SAFARI Knocking Around the Outback by Rex Ellis ~ Australia
A hard to find memoir: the author ran desert safaris in the Australian outback in the 1970's, looks like a cracker of a read and has some great photos.
Price: AUD $10.00
CAMERA AND CHIANTI Francis Sandwith (Italy) See photos & details
CAMERA AND CHIANTI Francis Sandwith (Italy)
CAMERA AND CHIANTI: a lovely old travel book from 1955.
Price: AUD $8.00
CAPTAIN SCOTT by Ranulph Fiennes See photos & details
CAPTAIN SCOTT by Ranulph Fiennes
A large and scarce book in good condition with very little reading wear. Pages are nice and clean with a little age. A nice book. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages - enjoy!
Price: AUD $12.00
CHINA A HISTORY John Keay See photos & details
CHINA A HISTORY John Keay
A scarce history of China.
Price: AUD $10.00
CITY OF LINGERING SPLENDOUR John Blofeld - An Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures See photos & details
CITY OF LINGERING SPLENDOUR John Blofeld - An Account of Old Peking's Exotic Pleasures
City of Lingering Splendor is an account of author John Blofeld's three years spent in Peking, China in the 1930s.
Price: AUD $8.00
COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU ALL Christina Thompson - An Unlikely Love Story (New Zealand) See photos & details
COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU ALL Christina Thompson - An Unlikely Love Story (New Zealand)
COME ON SHORE AND WE WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU ALL: the story of cultural collision between Westerners and Maoris told partly by history and partly by the story of Christina's marriage to a Maori man.
Price: AUD $8.00
CONSUL IN PARADISE W.A.R. Woods - Sixty Eight Years in Siam See photos & details
CONSUL IN PARADISE W.A.R. Woods - Sixty Eight Years in Siam
The author was sent to Thailand is a consular officer in 1896 and stayed for Sixty Eight Years. This book is quite hard to find and looks like an interesting read.
Price: AUD $10.00
CRAB IS KING Bernard Averbuch - The Colorful Story of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco (USA) See photos & details
CRAB IS KING Bernard Averbuch - The Colorful Story of Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco (USA)
A scarce book from 1973 - "The colorful stories and the fascinating history of Fisherman's Wharf in Sanfrancisco. Also includes some favourite Wharf recipes."
Price: AUD $5.00
DESERT QUEEN Janet Wallach - The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (Middle East) See photos & details
DESERT QUEEN Janet Wallach - The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia (Middle East)
DESERT QUEEN by Janet Wallach tells the untold story of Gertrude Bell, a woman as vital to the history of the Middle East as her friend and colleague, Lawrence of Arabia.
Price: AUD $9.00
DREAMING OF EAST Barbara Hodgson - Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient (Middle East) See photos & details
DREAMING OF EAST Barbara Hodgson - Western Women and the Exotic Allure of the Orient (Middle East)
From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Western women visiting the Middle East discovered there a rare and precious commodity: freedom. This book explores the eduring fascination that the Middle East exerted on women of the West, both because of its exotic trappings and because of the freedom it seemed to offer.
Price: AUD $9.00
EOTHEN A.W. Kinglake - (Middle East - Syria Palestine Egypt) See photos & details
EOTHEN A.W. Kinglake - (Middle East - Syria Palestine Egypt)
A scarce travel classic, the English author travels to the 'East', Syria, Palestine and Egpyt, around 1834.
Price: AUD $8.00
FADED DREAMS Daniel G. Fitzgerald - More Ghost Towns of Kansas - USA See photos & details
FADED DREAMS Daniel G. Fitzgerald - More Ghost Towns of Kansas - USA
A scarce book of history of interest to anybody off to Kansas, USA.
Price: AUD $10.00
FRAGILE PARADISE Glynn Christian (South Pacific Islands \ Pitcairn Island) See photos & details
FRAGILE PARADISE Glynn Christian (South Pacific Islands \ Pitcairn Island)
FRAGILE PARADISE: Glynn Christian's historical detective story and sailing expedition to Pitcairn Island to solve the riddle of Christian Fletcher's death, after his mutiny against William Bligh on the Bounty.
Price: AUD $12.00
FRANKLIN Andrew Lambert - Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation See photos & details
FRANKLIN Andrew Lambert - Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation
In 1845 Captain Sir John Franklin led a large, well equipped expedition to complete the conquest of the Canadian Arctic, to find the fabled North West Passage connecting the North Atlantic to the North Pacific. Yet Franklin, his ships and men were fated never to return. This book re-examines the life and the evidence.
Price: AUD $14.00
FROM A PERSIAN TEA HOUSE Michael Carroll - Travels in Old Iran See photos & details
FROM A PERSIAN TEA HOUSE Michael Carroll - Travels in Old Iran
An Iran travel classic - "An evocative and beautifully written account of Michael Carroll's journey to Iran that took him through the heart of the country -- from the Taurus mountains to the Gulf of Oman, during the years following the CIA-led coup of 1953."
Price: AUD $10.00
GALLIPOLI THE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE Mat McLachlan (Turkey) See photos & details
GALLIPOLI THE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE Mat McLachlan (Turkey)
In GALLIPOLI THE BATTLEFIELD GUIDE Mat McLachlan presents detailed plans for walking and driving tours across all the main battlefields, together with maps, photos and historical commentary.
Price: AUD $12.00
GREAT SOUTHERN LANDINGS An Anthology of Antipodean Travel edited by Jan Bassett See photos & details
GREAT SOUTHERN LANDINGS An Anthology of Antipodean Travel edited by Jan Bassett
A wonderful book of 90 extracts of Australian travel writing dating from 1605 to the1990s. This is a used hardcover travel book in very good condition: nice and clean with just a little shelf wear and age, lovely clean white pages. See photos for cover blurb and sample page(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!
Price: AUD $9.00
HIGH ALBANIA Edith Durham - A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey See photos & details
HIGH ALBANIA Edith Durham - A Victorian Traveller's Balkan Odyssey
Edith Durham began her travels late in life on her doctor's orders. She sailed to Montenegro and began a love affair with the Balkans that lasted the rest of her life. This is her passionate account of life in the formidable mountainous terrain of Northern Albania.
Price: AUD $15.00
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