African Madness
Alfred A. Knopf, November 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. More
Travel Literature
The Rivers Amazon
Random House, Inc., September 1986. Trade Paperback. More
The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans
Harper Perennial, October 2000. Trade Paperback. A True Portrait of One of the World's Most Chaotic and Beautiful Regions That Explains Why Violence Has Always Occurred There--And Why It May Continue For Years To Come The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with discord, both..... More
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Harper Perennial, February 2004. Trade Paperback. Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000-foot peak in the Andes when disaster struck. Simpson plunged off the vertical face of an ice ledge, breaking his leg. In the hours that followed, darkness fell and..... More
The Bridge of the Brocade Sash: Travels and Observations in Japan
World, 1959. First American. Cloth. First/first US edition in mildly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with dark green lettering with darkened/faded edges. Pink end pages with previous owner's lettering in ink. Green topstain faded. Sound binding. Unmarked text. More
Francis Frith's Lake District
Frith Book Company Ltd. Soft Cover. This work features approximately 150 detailed historic photographs from The Francis Frith Collection with extended captions and full introduction. Suitable for tourists, local historians and general readers. Crisp, clean copy. More
Beyond Euphrates
John Murray, 1951. Hardcover. Gilt-titled green cloth. Some foxing and light shelfwear. More
The Southern Gates of Arabia: A Journey in the Hadhramaut (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Modern Library, July 2001. Trade Paperback. In 1934, famed British traveler Freya Stark sailed down the Red Sea, alighting in Aden, located at the tip of the Arabian peninsula. From this backwater outpost, Stark set forth on what was to be her most unforgettable adventure: Following the ancient frankincense routes..... More
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Forgotten Village, The * With 136 Photographs From The Film Of The Same Name]
Viking, January 1941. Reprint. Hardcover. Small quarto. Dustjacket is missing. Light tan cloth with darkened spine and margins with green lettering upon spine and green line drawing on front board. Heavy foxing & darkening og end pages front and rear. Early reprint. [143 pages]. More
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vols. I and II
Editorial Dante, 1986. Trade Paperback. Two volume set; 127 engravings, including three fold out illustrations by Catherwood. Mild wear. (321, volume one & 352 volume two.). More
The Old Post Road: The Story of the Boston Post Road. (The American Trails Series; EDITED by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.)
McGraw-Hill, January 1962. Hardcover. Eighth Printing. Tan cloth with silver lettering & brown, silver & red horse & rider. Beige end pages. Slight slant to spine. In price-clipped, jacket with edgewear and several small tears (half inch or less). Chip & stain at bass of spine. More
The Places In Between
Harvest Books, May 2006. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller This acccount of a 36-day walk across Afghanistan, starting just weeks after the fall of the Taliban, is "stupendous...an instant travel classic" (Entertainment Weekly). In January 2002, Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan, surviving by his wits, his knowledge of..... More
Managing Ignatius : The Lunacy of Lucky Dogs and Life in the Quarter
Bantam Dell Pub Group, February 1999. Paper Back. In the 1960s John Kennedy Toole wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which details the uproarious misadventures of Ignatius J. Reilly, an overweight genius misfit. Though he has visions of grandeur, Ignatius winds up selling wienies for Paradise Vendors..... More
Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
Henry Holt & Company, July 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. ""I'm the one they send to the trailer park outside Chimayo, New Mexico, to see the place where the guy went crazy and shot somebody. I'm the one who gets sent to the monster truck show, Lollapalooza concerts, the world's biggest..... More
A Yankee in Canada
Harvest House - An Emulation Book, 1961. Paper Back. Clean, sound. No internal markings. No underlining. 126 pages. More
Shadow of the Silk Road
HarperCollins, July 2007. Hardcover. 2nd printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket Very Good w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy. More
South to Cadiz
Harper and Brothers, October 1934. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in brown cloth with gold lettering. Worn edges. Mild discoloration of cloth. Previous owner's name and a date inked ffep. Foxing. [196 pages]. More
Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
Picador, August 2003. Trade Paperback. In an exhilarating tale of historic adventure, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confederates in the Attic retraces the voyages of Captain James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who drew the map of the modern world Captain James Cook's three epic journeys in the 18th century..... More
North of Naples, South of Rome (Us)
Thomas Dunne Books, November 1998. Hardcover. Since childhood, Paolo Tullio has returned each summer to his hometown of Gallinaro, to the labyrinthian nest of his relations and to the passionate, warm-hearted people of his valley. North of Naples, South of Rome describes a hilariously chaotic wine competition, samples the Italian..... More
In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific
International Marine Publishing, July 2006. Trade Paperback. An extraordinary adventure. --Sea Kayaker In 1996 a 9,500-year-old skeleton unearthed beside the Columbia River galvanized anthropologists with the possibility that prehistoric humans reached North America from northern Japan by crossing the ocean in small open boats. In In the Wake of the..... More
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
Dover Publications, September 1989. Trade Paperback. Bound on a lecturing trip around the world, Mark Twain turns his keen satiric eye to far lands in "Following the Equator." The first of two volumes, this vivid record of a sea voyage on the Pacific Ocean displays Twain's instinctive eye for the..... More
The great landslide case: Three versions (Series of Keepsakes issued by the Friends of the Bancroft Library for its members)
Friends of the Bancroft Library, January 1972. Soft Cover. Seven' x Ten &1/4'; quarto; Cover darkened at margins & spine. There is a one & one-half inch mostly closed-tear to paper wrapper at base of spine up and across the quarter-inch width of spine. Binding remains sound. There is a...... More
Twain: Letters from Hawaii
University of Hawaii Press, February 1989. Paper Back. "I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late..... More
Vidal in Venice
Simon & Schuster, September 1987. Oversized Hardcover. More
A Literary Guide to Provence
Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, November 2001. Hardcover. Provence through the eyes of its writers--those who wrote of it in Provençal or French and also those visitors who were moved by its beauty--that is the inspiration behind A Literary Guide to Provence. In this compact travel guide, Marseilles native..... More
