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Nature Is Your Guide: How To Find Your Way On Land And Sea
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore GPS, before compasses became commonplace, there was the natural world — and for those who...
Australia's Great Barrier Reef
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedStretching over 2,300 kilometres along the Queensland coastline, the Great Barrier Reef is one of the most breathtaking natural wonders...
Pleasure Of Ruins
$25.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: Note: Faded boards with minor discoloration. What draws the human eye — and the human heart —...
Australian Seashores: A Guide For The Beach-Lover, The Naturalist, The Shore Fisherman, And The Student
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Mylar sleeve on jacketA landmark in Australian natural history literature, Australian Seashores stands as the definitive guide to...
Sea Shore, Swamp And Bush: Exploring Nature's Mysteries
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFor those captivated by the raw, untamed landscapes of Western Australia, Sea Shore, Swamp and Bush: Exploring Nature's Mysteries by Ada Jackson,...
Spain
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew books capture the soul of a nation with the lyrical authority that Jan Morris brings to Spain — a masterful portrait of a...
The Road To Bordeaux
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: YellowedIn the chaotic summer of 1940, as Nazi forces swept through France and an entire nation collapsed into panic...
Diaries In Ceylon 1908-1911: Records Of A Colonial Administrator & Stories From The East: Three Short Stories On Ceylon
$50.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Fold-out map remains intact. Content remains legible. At the dawn of the twentieth century, a young British civil...
Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew names loom as large in the annals of Central Asian discovery as Sir Marc Aurel Stein, the Hungarian-British archaeologist whose audacious expeditions across...
A Guide To Watching Wild Life: How To Watch, Where To Watch, When To Watch
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFor anyone who has ever stood at the edge of a woodland at dusk and felt the electric thrill of...
Jaguar: One Man's Struggle To Establish The World's First Jaguar Preserve
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the dense rainforests of Belize, a young scientist made a promise to a caged jaguar that would alter the course of conservation history...
Macartney At Kashgar: New Light On British, Chinese, And Russian Activities In Sinkiang, 1890-1918
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of the Great Game — that shadowy contest of empires played out across the rooftop...
Naples: A Travellers' Companion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cities in the world have captivated the imagination of travellers, poets, and painters quite like Naples —...
Rome's Historic Churches
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsBeneath the eternal skies of the Eternal City, centuries of faith, artistry, and ambition are written in stone — and...
Aspects Of Paris
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodParis — city of light, shadow, and endless contradiction — comes alive in Peter de Polnay's richly observed portrait of one of the world's...
Why China?: Recollections Of China 1923-1950
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the turbulent warlord era of the 1920s to the dramatic Communist victory of 1949, Why China?: Recollections of China 1923-1950 is a firsthand account...
Remote People
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the early 1930s, Evelyn Waugh embarked on a journey through East Africa and the Horn of Africa, and Remote People chronicles that extraordinary adventure...
The Galápagos Islands
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew places on Earth have captured the scientific and popular imagination quite like the Galápagos Islands — a volcanic archipelago adrift in the Pacific...
Vienna: A Guide To Its Music And Musicians
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew cities on earth have shaped the course of Western music as profoundly as Vienna, and Franz Endler's Vienna: A Guide to its Music and...
The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes From A Mud Hut
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a freshly minted Oxford-trained anthropologist is dropped into the remote hills of Cameroon with little more than a notebook, good intentions, and...
The Voyage Of Charles Darwin: His Autobiographical Writings Selected And Arranged By Christopher Ralling
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew journeys in the history of science have altered the course of human understanding as profoundly as Charles Darwin's five-year expedition aboard HMS Beagle, and...
One Long Summer Day In Alaska: A Documentation Of Perspectives In The Wrangell Mountains
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the vast, untamed wilderness of Alaska's Wrangell Mountains, where summer days stretch into an...
Skywriting: An Aviation Anthology
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerFrom the cockpit to the clouds, Skywriting: An Aviation Anthology is a masterfully curated collection that captures the full spectrum of human...
The Zoo Quest Expeditions: Travels In Guyana, Indonesia, And Paraguay
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodLong before he became the beloved voice of the natural world, a young David Attenborough embarked on a series of daring expeditions to some...
On The Shores Of The Mediterranean
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: DJ - rubbed edges with small tear. Few travel writers possess the rare gift of transforming a journey into literature,...
Danube: A Journey Through The Landscape, History, And Culture Of Central Europe
$30.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew rivers in the world carry the weight of history and civilization quite like the Danube, and Claudio Magris — one of...
Cooper's Creek: The Story Of Burke And Wills
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the scorching heart of 19th-century Australia, two men dared to do what no European had done before...
In Patagonia
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the very tip of the world, where the Andes dissolve into wind-scoured steppe and the Atlantic meets...
Battle For The Franklin
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most defining environmental struggles in Australian history, Battle for the Franklin chronicles the fierce and...
Barbarian In The Garden
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Remainder markCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a poet from behind the Iron Curtain is finally set free to wander...
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHeaven's Command: An Imperial Progress is a sweeping, magisterial chronicle of the British Empire at its zenith, tracing...
Farewell The Trumpets: An Imperial Retreat
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThe sun was setting on the greatest empire the world had ever known — and Farewell the Trumpets:...
The Desert And The Sown
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century, one of history's most remarkable women saddled her horse and rode...
Love And War In The Apennines
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the autumn of 1943, a young British soldier escapes from an Italian prisoner-of-war camp and finds himself...
Tristes Tropiques
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePart memoir, part philosophical meditation, and part ethnographic masterpiece, Tristes Tropiques chronicles Claude Lévi-Strauss's formative expeditions...
Prospero's Cell: A Guide To The Landscape And Manners Of The Island Of Corcyra
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the storm of World War II shattered the peace of the Mediterranean, a young Lawrence Durrell arrived...
Bitter Lemons
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mid-1950s, Lawrence Durrell arrived on the sun-scorched shores of Cyprus, purchased a crumbling village house in...
Reflections On A Marine Venus: A Companion To The Landscape Of Rhodes
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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the sun-drenched aftermath of World War II, Lawrence Durrell arrived on the island of Rhodes as a...
Istanbul: A Travellers' Companion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cities in the world have inspired as much wonder, intrigue, and literary fascination as Istanbul — the...
Edinburgh: A Travellers' Companion
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew cities in the world command the literary imagination quite like Edinburgh — a city of volcanic crags,...
Along The Road: Notes And Essays Of A Tourist
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers could transform a journey through Europe into a meditation on art, culture, and the human condition quite like Aldous Huxley,...
The Penguin Book Of Lost Worlds: Volume Two: Crete, Mycenae, Anatolia And Etruria
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep back into the dust and silence of civilisations that time nearly erased — The Penguin...
A Traveller's War: A Journey To The Wars In Africa, India And Russia
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the darkest years of the Second World War, journalist and war correspondent Alaric Jacob...
Samuel Palmer's Italian Honeymoon
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the autumn of 1837, the visionary English artist Samuel Palmer embarked on a two-year journey through Italy with his new bride,...
Billy Hart: Australia's First Licensed Pilot
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBefore the age of commercial flight, when the skies above Australia were uncharted and the roar of an...
Gertrude Bell
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodShe mapped deserts, shaped nations, and moved through the corridors of imperial power at a time when women were barely permitted to enter them...
Voices From The Sea
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe ocean has always called to those willing to answer, and Voices from the Sea gathers the literary responses of those who answered most...
In Suspect Terrain
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerBeneath the familiar landscapes of the American Northeast lies a geological story of staggering complexity and deep time — one...