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Truly hilarious books are rare. Even rarer are those based on real events. Join A.J. Mackinnon, your charming and eccentric guide, on an amazing voyage in a boat called Jack...

'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....

'It is a glorious book: an education and an invitation. There is such life in its pages, and such food!' Nigella Lawson A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the...

The book titled Vanishing Japan: Traditions, Crafts and Culture by the author Elizabeth Kiritani. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Thrilling . . . With deep research and suspenseful storytelling, Mr. Randall reminds us that America's pre-eminence in the aviation industry was never assured and that it took a race...

"Eric Blehm offers an insightful perspective on how Craig Kelly became the effortless icon that we all revered as well as sobering details of how his heroic journey tragically ended....

A comprehensive hands-on manual that covers the Yachtmaster syllabus and brings together all the essentials of modern cruising in one volume. A bestseller since its first publication, The Complete Yachtmaster...

The mesmerizing, larger-than-life tale of an eccentric adventurer who traversed some of the greatest frontiers of the twentieth century, from uncharted Arctic wastelands to the underground resistance networks of World...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedWinding through the storied landscape of Ayrshire in southwest Scotland, the River Doon has inspired poets, shaped communities, and carved...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLong before the age of the travel guide, Daniel Defoe set out on an ambitious journey across the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBeneath the sands, jungles, and seas of the ancient world lie the ruins of civilisations that time forgot...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew writers have surrendered themselves to place with the same intoxicating abandon as Lawrence Durrell, and Spirit...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: price clipped djBeneath every sweeping plain, jagged mountain range, and ancient coastline lies a...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFew books have done more to ignite a passion for the natural world than Roger Tory Peterson's landmark A Field...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the annals of solo seafaring, few voyages have captured the world's imagination quite like that of Sir Francis Chichester, who in 1966–67 single-handedly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the golden age of sail, one man dared to do what no one had ever done before — Captain...

Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTasmania's ancient wilderness speaks in a language older than words, and The Quiet Land captures...

Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsIn the tradition of the great age of colonial exploration, Explorers of Western Tasmania chronicles the remarkable journeys...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThere is a rhythm to the countryside that most modern lives have forgotten — A Countryman's Year by Alan C. Jenkins restores it, guiding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAustralia's past is etched into the streetscapes of its historic towns, and Reader's Digest Book of Historic Australian Towns brings those living...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the surface of the American West and Hawaii, titanic geological forces are perpetually at work — and The Edge of Fire...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedIn the golden age of flight, a handful of daring men and women took to the skies above Australia and forever changed the course of history...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerNestled in the heart of Victoria's stunning eastern coastline, the Gippsland Lakes represent one of Australia's most magnificent and ecologically rich waterway systems —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat if the maps that guided history's greatest explorers were themselves copies of something far older — charts...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark reference for historians and travellers alike, The Knights' Fortifications: Illustrated Guide by S.C. Spiteri presents a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the grandest maritime undertaking of the eighteenth century, eleven vessels departed Portsmouth in May 1787, carrying over a thousand souls —...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: worn and faded boards; award plate on front pastedown; top edge...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew journeys in the annals of British exploration match the sheer ambition and artistry of William Daniell's epic circumnavigation of the British coastline, undertaken...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodCondition remarks: 15 reproductions of Parkin's illustrations included. Few vessels have shaped the course of history as profoundly as the Endeavour, the humble converted...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew works capture the living pulse of a nation with the precision and passion of Daniel Defoe's A Tour through the Whole Island of...

Edition: 6th repr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew figures in the history of exploration command the seas of the imagination quite like Captain James Cook, and Captain Cook's Voyages:...

Before Thesiger, T.E.Lawrence and Richard Burton, there was an even greater traveller in the heroic British tradition of the recklessly adventurous, amateur scholar - Alexander Burnes. This slightly built, wiry...

In 1966 Dervla Murphy travelled the length and breadth of Ethopia, first on a mule, Jock, whom she named after her publisher, and later on a recalcitrant donkey. The remarkable...

Lonely Planet's Experience Italy travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with insider tips from our local experts and handy planning tools so you can create...

This is the first travel book that tested the idea that a five-year-old daughter makes for a useful international travelling companion. Together Dervla Murphy and her daughter Rachel with little...

Reluctantly leaving Venice behind her, Marlena de Blasi travels with her Italian husband south to begin their new adventure. It's in San Casciano dei Bagni, a small Tuscan village, that...

The California Dream made Route 66 the most famous road in the world. Flappers dreamed of stardom under the bright lights of Hollywood. A wave of families fleeing the Dust...

The book titled Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by the author Joe Simpson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew corners of the maritime world are as dramatically storied as the wild southern seas surrounding...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives read as thrillingly as that of James Cook, the Yorkshire farm boy who became the greatest explorer of the Age...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedLong before the modern world cast its shadow over the highlands and coastal villages of Papua New Guinea, a remarkable land of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew accounts in the history of world literature have fired the imagination quite like The Travels of Marco Polo, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the age of tall ships and uncharted seas, one man dared to sail beyond the edges of the known world — Abel Tasman,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the dawn of the nineteenth century, French captain Nicolas Baudin led one of the most ambitious scientific expeditions ever mounted in the Southern...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFew lives in the annals of exploration rival the audacity and consequence of James Cook's voyages across the world's most uncharted waters....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBefore Arthur Phillip ever set sail for Botany Bay, his formative years were shaped by a lesser-known chapter of maritime history —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn the sun-scorched, untamed landscape of mid-nineteenth-century Australia, two voices rise from the dust to tell a story of courage,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: WornPages: GoodAt the intersection of cartographic history and regional heritage stands this meticulously reproduced facsimile of Sheet 76 — the Bath & Wells sheet — drawn...