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HISTORY OF THE DONNER PARTY A Tragedy of the Sierra by Charles F McGlashan

A classic acount of a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train. Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism to survive, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness.

Price: AUD $8.00

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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL IN YUCATAN Volume Two by John L Stephens

A classic book of exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidence of Maya civilization.

Price: AUD $8.00

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INVENTING A NATION Washington, Adams, Jefferson by Gore Vidal

A scarce book for folks into US history.

Price: AUD $9.00

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INVENTING JAPAN Ian Buruma - From Empire to Economic Miracle

A very readable and hard-to-find book on modern Japanese history. The story of modern Japan, from first 'opening' to the West with Admiral Perry's Black Ships in 1853, through World War II, to Japan's emergence as a Western-style democracy and economic power at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

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ISAAC'S STORM A man, a time and the deadliest hurricane in history by Erik Larson

A scarce book on Texas hurricane in 1900. See photos for condition, cover blurb and sample pages - enjoy!

Price: AUD $6.00

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JAVANESE PEASANTS AND THE COLONIAL SUGAR INDUSTRY Impact and Change in a East Java Residency 1830-1940 by RE Elson

A rare academic text. Book is in good condition with general age and scuffing to cover, pages age clean and aging lightly, light reading wear. See photos for cover blurb, sample pages and conditiion - enjoy!

Price: AUD $12.00

$JOURNEY TO KARS Philip Glazebrook - A Modern Traveller in the Ottoman Lands - Europe \ Turkey$ See photos & details

JOURNEY TO KARS Philip Glazebrook - A Modern Traveller in the Ottoman Lands - Europe \ Turkey

In Journey to Kars author Philip Glazebrook travels in the footsteps of Victorian travellers to the city of Kars in Turkey via old Serbian and Greek provinces and islands. This book is quite hard to find.

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JOURNEY TO THE ALCARRIA Travels through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo Jose Cela (Spain)

A translation of an account of a walking tour taken by Cela of the Alcarria region of northeastern Spain in the 1940s. This is a used travel book in good condition: clean with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb and sample pages(s). The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00

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JOURNEY TO THE JADE SEA by John Hillaby (Kenya, Africa)

A classic African travel book first published in 1964. Tired of city ife and ashamed at his tolerance of boredom, John Hillaby decided to go on a three month safari in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya. With five natives, six camels, 1400 pounds of baggage, twelve pairs of gym shoes, a shot-gut, a Swahili phrase book and a floppy hat, he travelled from Wamba to Lake Rudolf and back.

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KOTA MAMA John Blashford-Snell and Richard Snailham - From the Andes to the Atlantic - an Amazing Journey of Adventure and Discovery

Koto Mama traces the journey of modern day explorers John Blashford-Snell and Richard Snailham as they built a fleet of reed boats in the fashion of pre-Inca people in South America.

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LAST POST The End of an Empire in the Far East by John Keay

A fascinating looking history book. This is a used book in very good condition: nice and clean; pages tanning lightly with age; rarely read. 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 $10.00

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LETTERS FROM THE BAY OF ISLANDS Caroline Fitzgerald - The Story of Marianne Williams (New Zealand)

LETTERS FROM THE BAY OF ISLANDS: An extraordinary first hand account of the first missionaries to New Zealand from the wife of Henry Williams. This collection of letters has been edited and collated by Caroline Fitzgerald, the great-granddaughter of Marianne Williams.

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LIBYAN SANDS R.A. Bagnold - Travel in a Dead World (Libya / Egypt / Africa)

LIBYAN SANDS: an English desert-loving young officer whose passionate amateur enthusiasm led to the exploration of the Egyptian western desert and the Libyan Sahara on the eve of the second world war.

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LIZZIE - A VICTORIAN LADY'S AMAZON ADVENTURE Compiled by Tony Morrison, Ann Brown & Anne Rose

This remarkable book is based on the recently discovered letters that Lizzie Hessel wrote to her family on her 4,000 mile journey to Bolivia, spanning 1896 to her death in 1899.

Price: AUD $12.00

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LOCAL HEROINES Jane Legget - A Travel Guidebook to Women's History in Great Britain

Local Heroines is a scarce and interesting looking guide to UK women's history organised for the traveller by city, town and village.

Price: AUD $15.00

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LORCA'S GRANADA Ian Gibson - A Practical Guide

Lorca's Granada looks like an interesting read for anybody into Spanish travel and literature - "Aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada by looking at the sites relevant to the poet Lorca's life. This book takes the visitor from Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the village of Fuente Vaqueros, to the site of his assassination at the beginning of the Civil War."

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LOVE AND WAR IN THE APENNINES by Eric Newby

A classic true story by a legendary writer. Book is in good condition with light reading wear and age. See photos for cover blurb, sample page and condition - enjoy!

Price: AUD $8.00