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Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston
The Kilima-Njaro Expedition of 1886, First UK edition in very good condition
A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa. And a general description of the natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilima-Njaro district.
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Bonington, Quest for Adventure
No.: SKU209
Chris Bonington compiled a record as one of history's great mountain climbers. He is also a gifted writer, and this absorbing coffee-table size book is not only attractive but an informative and entertaining comjpendium of some of the world's greatest outdoor adventures.
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Appleton, Don Sturdy across the North Pole
No.: SKU227
One in the Don Sturdy boy's adventure book series:
Don Sturdy's uncle invites Don to go to the North Pole with him to obtain a polar bear specimen.."We're going Northwest" said Don's uncle. "It's a case of the longest way around being the shortest way home. You see, if we went directly...
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Maclean, Captain Cook
No.: SKU204
A biography of the explorer Captain James Cook. Alistair MacLean achievement in this book is to present a graphic and lively account of this great explorer, and to describe in exciting detail his three amazing voyages and the adventures that befell him.
Price: €12.00 |
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Fuchs, A time to speak, his autobiography
No.: SKU48
An autobiography by Sir Vivian Fuchs. Born in 1908 in the Isle of Wight, Sir Vivian Fuchs was educated at Brighton College and St John's College, Cambridge, where he qualified as a geologist. Apart from the War years, during which he was commissioned into the Cambridgeshire Regiment and served in...
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Stonor, (Rare)The Sherpa and the Snowman
No.: SKU74
Foreword by John Hunt. Account of the Daily Mail Himalayan Expedition (1953-4) in search of the Yeti. Includes a study of Sherpa life and the flora and fauna of the region. The author describes a quest which began in the foothills of Nepal and led to the lower slopes of Everest. Trying to find ou...
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Shipton, TIERRA DEL FUEGO: THE FATAL LODESTONE
No.: SKU106
Eric Shipton opens and concludes his narrative of the many explorers and others who sailed or settled there with an account of his own explorations in the 'land of fire'. The result is a richly coloured story of courage, shame and madness.
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FIENNES, Ice Fall in Norway
No.: SKU105
The story of an extraordinary expedition to the Jostedals glacier in Norway; The author & his companions parachuted down on to the dangerous ice surface, to carry ot a survey & collect specimens; They then had to climb a sheer icefall, in dreadful weather & then negotiate a river full of rocks & ...
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Shackelton, SOUTH...Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917
No.: SKU6289
Shackleton's narrative of his unsuccessful expedition to the Antarctic is one of the classics of the literature of polar exploration. Original photographs, maps and diagrams, and including Professor Edgeworth David's independent An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic Pole.
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Wheeler, TERRA INCOGNITA, Travels in Antarctica
No.: SKU245
"Terra Incognita is a superbly written book to add to the canon of Polar literature. Entertaining, audacious, and imaginative, it is a joy to read."
Sara spent Christmas at the South Pole, pitched her tent on the sea ice for New Year, slept in Captain Scott's bunk in the Cape Evans hut,...
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