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By: Bassett, Marnie
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 1966
Seller ID: 32818
Index, bibliography. Foldout colour sketch of the vessel in Cape York by Oswald Brierly. 500gms weight; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 114 pages View more info
By: Bawlf, Samuel
Price: $32.50
Publisher: London, Penguin Books Ltd: 2004
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20274
Index, notes and bibliography Whilst circumnavigating the globe in 1577 was Drake on another secret mission? 300 grams weight. ; Remainder; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 400 pages View more info
By: Bellis, H
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Singapore, Mcgraw Hill Book Co: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6043
58p, colour illustrations Historical Characters series. Few scuffs to black cover. Bookseller details top of ffep. ; 8vo View more info
By: Blashford-Snell, John and Ballantine, Alistair (Ed)
Price: $10.50
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2069
256p. Ten experts write a chapter on expeditions - polar, ocean voyages personnel, small groups and mountaineering, , jungles and deserts, underwater, preparation, logistics and planning. Tiny chip to top edge of spine of back cover. ; 8vo View more info
By: Bowman, Gerald
Price: $14.50
Publisher: London, Evans Bros: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2731
191 pages. Index. Four polar explorers Scott, Amundsen, Shackleton Byrd are studied as well as the Fuchs and Hilary expedition. Appendix 1 has a list of known Antarctic explorers, Appendix 2 has a list of all personnel on the expeditions dealt with in this book. Light surface wear to cover which is intact, but price cut.; 8vo View more info
By: Brown, Stephen R
Price: $36.50
Publisher: Melbourne, Penguin Australia: 2004
Seller ID: 21862
Bibliography. History of scurvy and hunt for a treatment. 300gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages View more info
By: Buck, Peter H
Price: $26.50
Publisher: Chicago, Phoenix Books: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 5987
2nd impression 1960. 338p, index, b/w illustrations, historic photos, and maps. Foxing to back cover. Owner's stamp on front page. Yellowed paper; 8vo View more info
By: Calder, Ritchie
Price: $7.00
Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd.: 1951
Seller ID: 28179
Index, map of nth Africa on endpapers. Author undertakes a tour of desert research stations on behalf of UNESCO, description includes - on trail of the Rats of Tobruk, qanats of Persia, Iraq, Egypt. 500gms weight; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages View more info
Price: $33.50
Publisher: London, Ebury Press: 2002
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20200
Index. "Part biography and part historical mystery. "Weight 600 grams; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages View more info
By: Colwell Max
Price: $11.50
Publisher: Sydney, Hamlyn: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13517
Illustrated, index, maps historic illustrations add to the understanding of Flinder's achievements.900gms weight; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 150 pages View more info
By: Cook, James
Price: $11.50
Publisher: Herberton (qld), Hisine Technique:
Seller ID: 21681
Stapled booklet printed in far north Queensland which is a facsimile of the section dealing with exploration and Cook's voyage along the Queensland coast.100gms weight ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: Farmer, Gene and Hamblin, Dora Jane
Price: $26.50
Publisher: Connecticut, Konecky & Konecky:
Seller ID: 7182
434p. Photos from NASA. Near new condition. 1kg weight; 8vo View more info
By: Fiennes, Ranulph
Price: $10.50
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton: 2003
Seller ID: 29846
No crease to spine. Colour photos, author has experienced modern day rigours of Antarctic expeditions. 900gms weight ; Color Illustrations; 9.10 X 5.90 X 1.80 inches; 514 pages View more info
By: Frith, Henry
Price: $18.50
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Company , Limited:
Seller ID: 20844
Index, gold lettering on spine and cover. 750gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 312 pages View more info
By: Fuchs, Vivian
Price: $15.50
Publisher: London, Cassell: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3062
190, b/w drawings, Foxing to edges and cover. Cover has few chips and tears on top edge. ; 8vo View more info
By: Gorman, James
Price: $13.50
Publisher: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., Harpercollins: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13309
190p, index, b/w photos. Unclipped jacket.500gms weight; 8vo View more info
By: Graves, Richard
Price: $41.50
Publisher: Sydney, Dymocks: 1984
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 30822
First published in 1950 as The 10 Bushcraft Books. Index, bibliography. Chapters on knots, campcraft, firemaking, map reading. Detailed drawings. 500gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 322 pages View more info
By: Grimble, Arthur
Price: $7.00
Publisher: London, Reprint Society: 1954
Seller ID: 32155
Index. Map on endpapers. Gold lettering on spine. Historic b/w photos of island life. 600 grams weight. ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 322 pages View more info
By: Harris, David
Price: $8.50
Publisher: South Australia, Wakefield Press: 1991
Seller ID: 31996
1991 reprint. Map. Lost city of Li-jien built by the Romans 1300 years before Marco Polo arrived in China. 380gms weight ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages View more info
By: Hemming, John
Price: $13.00
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14454
"This book describes the nature of the conquistador, and tells from contemporary sources the appalling cruelty of these explorers, who preyed on the Indian tribes but who themselves suffered indescribable hardships'. Index, bibliography, b/w and colour illustrations. Weighs 800 grams; Color Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 224 pages View more info
