Category: Explorers and Exploration

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
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Captain Cook

By: Bellis, H

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Singapore, Mcgraw Hill Book Co : 1970

Seller ID: 6043

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

58p, colour illustrations Historical Characters series. Few scuffs to black cover. Bookseller details top of ffep. ; 8vo
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Seventh Journey

By: Blonville, Earl De

Price: $26.50

Publisher: Melbourne, Bear Publishing Pty Ltd : 2008

Seller ID: 36835

ISBN-13: 9780980583007

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Signed by author to Steve on title page. B/w and colour photos.760gms weight; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 416 pages; Signed by Author
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From Scott to Fuchs

By: Bowman, Gerald

Price: $14.50

Publisher: London, Evans Bros : 1958

Seller ID: 2731

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

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
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MAN OF ANTARCTICA : THE STORY OF CAPTAIN SCOTT

By: Briggs, Philip

Price: $10.50

Publisher: London, Lutterworth Press : 1966

Seller ID: 35871

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; Mild wear to jacket. Prize bookplate inside front cover

250gms weight; Courage and Conquest; Color Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7" tall; 98 pages
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SCURVY How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

By: Brown, Stephen R

Price: $36.50

Publisher: Melbourne, Penguin Australia : 2004

Seller ID: 21862

ISBN-13: 9780143002642

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Bibliography. History of scurvy and hunt for a treatment. 300gms weight; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages
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MEN AGAINST THE DESERT

By: Calder, Ritchie

Price: $7.00

Publisher: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. : 1951

Seller ID: 28179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket; Foxing to book cover, taped in with compliments slip now loose

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
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CAPTAIN COOK Obsession and Betrayal in the New World

By: Collingridge, Vanessa

Price: $33.50

Publisher: London, Ebury Press : 2002

Seller ID: 20200

ISBN-13: 9780091886592

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good; Yellowed paper

Index. "Part biography and part historical mystery. "Weight 600 grams; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 376 pages
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THE VOYAGES OF MATTHEW FLINDERS

By: Colwell Max

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Sydney, Hamlyn : 1970

Seller ID: 13517

ISBN-13: 9780600359494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket; Gift inscription reverse of ffep. Repaired tear bottom spine of d/w

Illustrated, index, maps historic illustrations add to the understanding of Flinder's achievements.900gms weight; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 150 pages
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CAPTAIN COOK'S FIRST VOYAGE Commenced in 1768, and Finished in 1771. His First Published Account of Landing in the Endeavour River. Reproduced from the 'newcastle' Edition of Cook's Diaries.

By: Cook, James

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Herberton (qld), Hisine Technique

Seller ID: 21681

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good; Yellowed paper.

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
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Hell's Airport and Lasseter's Lost Legacy

By: Coote, Errol

Price: $76.50

Publisher: South Australia, Investigator Press : 1981

Seller ID: 35127

ISBN-13: 9780858640504

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good; Light foxing on half title page

Foreword by Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. Author was the pilot who assisted in the search for Lassester's lost gold reef in outback Australia. Historic b/w photos of Alice Springs in the 1930s. This 3rd edition edited by George A Stapleton with the assistance of the widow, Alison Coote. Clean text, no creases.200gms weight ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 144 pages
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THE TRIBE THAT HIDES FROM MAN

By: Cowell, Alan

Price: $8.50

Publisher: London, Book Club Associates : 1974

Seller ID: 36968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Covered in clear adhesive plastic, owners name blacked out ffep , yellowed paper

Appendices, postscript. 500gms weight; Book Club Edition; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages
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First on the Moon : a Voyage with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E Aldrin Jr. Written with Gene Farmer and Dora Jane Hamblin. Epilogue by Arthur C Clarke

By: Farmer, Gene and Hamblin, Dora Jane

Price: $26.50

Publisher: Connecticut, Konecky & Konecky

Seller ID: 7182

ISBN-13: 9781568523989

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

434p. Photos from NASA. Near new condition. 1kg weight; 8vo
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THE ROMANCE OF NAVIGATION A Brief Record of Maritime Discovery from the Earliest Times to the 18th Century

By: Frith, Henry

Price: $18.50

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Company , Limited

Seller ID: 20844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good; Ffep missing, owner's name dated 1900 on title page, light foxing

Index, gold lettering on spine and cover. 750gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 312 pages
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Antarctic Adventure : the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58

By: Fuchs, Vivian

Price: $15.50

Publisher: London, Cassell : 1959

Seller ID: 3062

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

190, b/w drawings, Foxing to edges and cover. Cover has few chips and tears on top edge. ; 8vo
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Riddles in History

By: Gordon, Cyrus H.

Price: $26.50

Publisher: London, Arthur Barker Ltd. : 1974

Seller ID: 35918

ISBN-13: 9780213165123

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Index, glossary, maps. 600gms weight; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages
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Black Horse Odyssey Search for the Lost City of Rome in China

By: Harris, David

Price: $8.50

Publisher: South Australia, Wakefield Press : 1991

Seller ID: 31996

ISBN-13: 9781862542709

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good; Yellowed paper, no creases.

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
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Category: Explorers and Exploration