Classic Travel Writing
"The Oxford Book of Exploration"
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"Oxford Books of Prose & Verse" series; Divided into geographical sections, this book presents a comprehensive anthology of the writing of explorers through the ages, with biographical and introductory material. It takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt. New ed. Paperback, 692 pages. Size: 196 x 129 mm. Weight: 439g.
Author: (Hanbury-Tenison, Robin, ed.)
ISBN: 0192805568
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Travel Writing 1700-1830"An Anthology
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"Oxford World's Classics" series; An Anthology. By the end of the eighteenth century, British travellers had fanned out to every corner of the world, driven by widely varying motives: scientific curiosity, commerce, colonization, diplomacy, exploration, and tourism. In letters, journals, and books, travellers wrote at first-hand of exotic lands and beautiful scenery, and of encounters with strange peoples and wildlife. This anthology brings together the best writing from authors such as Daniel Defoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, Olaudah Equiano, Mungo Park, Maria Nugent and many others, to provide a comprehensive selection from this emerging literary Paperback, 560 pages. Size: 196 x 129 mm. Weight: 410g.
Author: (Bohls, Elizabeth A., ed.)
ISBN: 0199537526
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Uncle Sam's Camels"The Journal of May Humphreys Stacey Supplemented By the Report of Edward Fitzgerald Beale (1857-1858)
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Lt Edward Fitzgerald Beale led the nation's first and only camel corps expedition. Joining him was nineteen-year-old May Humphreys Stacey, who kept a journal of their harrowing adventures. Here, Lesley reproduces Stacey's account as well as Lt Beale's report on the expedition, in which he frequently comments on the camels' remarkable endurance. With 4 b/w illustrations. Paperback, 317 pages. Size: 241 x 165 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: (Lesley, Lewis Burt, ed.)
ISBN: 0873282205
Publisher: Huntington Library Press,Us
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Who Travels Sees More"Artists, Architects and Archaeologists Discover Egypt and the Near East
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A collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. With 75 b/w illus, 16p col pls. Hardback, 216 pages. Size: 246 x 189 mm. Weight: 869g.
Author: (Fortenberry, Diane, ed.)
ISBN: 1842172735
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Classic Travel Writing
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"Secrets of Rome"Stories, Places and Characters of the Eternal City
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Stories, Places, and Characters of the Eternal City. With illustrations (some col.). Hardback, 472 pages. Size: 216 x 133 mm. Weight: 718g.
Author: Augias, Corrado
ISBN: 0847829332
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Iceland"Its Scenes and Sagas
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Illustrated with Baring-Gould's own drawings, this is an entertaining and eccentric insight into a world of myth and legend as well as a classic of natural and human observation. With 30 illustrations. Paperback, 440 pages. Size: 203 x 138 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Baring-Gould, Sabine
ISBN: 1902669894
Publisher: Signal Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"In the Heart of the Amazon Forest"
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"Penguin Great Journeys" series; Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Paperback, 128 pages. Weight: 505g.
Author: Bates, Henry Walter
ISBN: 0141025395
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Adventures in the Rocky Mountains"
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"Penguin Great Journeys" series; Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - and also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Paperback, 128 pages. Weight: 505g.
Author: Bird, Isabella L.
ISBN: 0141025344
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"To the Hebrides"Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour
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Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Here, they paint a picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment. With illustrations. Paperback, 320 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Boswell, James Johnson, Samuel (Black, Ronald, ed.)
ISBN: 1841584673
Publisher: Birlinn General
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"A Time in Rome"
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Presents a portrait of Rome, intended both as an introduction for visitors and an attempt to capture the mood of the Eternal City. New ed. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 200 x 131 mm. Weight: 505g.
Author: Bowen, Elizabeth
ISBN: 0099284952
Publisher: Vintage
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Thomas Jefferson Travels"Collected Travel Writings 1765-1826
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Offers a fresh insight into Jefferson and his expansive body of literature. This work draws from the President's journals, personal correspondence, and other writing to look at Jefferson the traveller. It shows how he reacted to new environments and unfamiliar physical and cultural circumstances. Hardback, 288 pages. Size: 152 x 229 mm. Weight: 788g.
Author: Brandt, Anthony
ISBN: 0792254864
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Date: 2006 (United States)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Letters From Hamnavoe"
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2 rev ed. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 215g.
Author: Brown, George Mackay
ISBN: 190424601X
Publisher: Steve Savage Publishers Limited
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"To the Holy Shrines"
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"Penguin Great Journeys" series; Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - and also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Paperback, 112 pages. Weight: 505g.
Author: Burton, Richard
ISBN: 0141025387
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"Travels in Shetland 1832-52"
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Edward Charlton was a seventeen-year-old medical student when he sailed from Leith to Lerwick in 1832 and had to convince the authorities that the ship was not stricken with cholera. His journals give a vivid picture of Shetland in the 1830s, and the changes he found when he came back for a more hurried visit in 1852. With illustrations (chiefly col.), 1 port.. Paperback, 152 pages. Weight: 344g.
Author: Charlton, Edward (Charlton, William, ed.)
ISBN: 1904746292
Publisher: Shetland Times Ltd
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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"A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire"
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"Penguin Great Journeys" series; Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Paperback, 128 pages. Weight: 505g.
Author: Chekhov, A.P.
ISBN: 0141025506
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Classic Travel Writing
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