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Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains, gives a fascinating description of life in the untamed Colorado Territory at a time when it was only notionally under the control of the American authorities, having been brutally seized from the Indians. Her intrepid journeys through remote areas are relayed in the form of fluent, achingly beautiful.
ISBN-13: 9781912081004 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Imprint: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Isabella L. Bird
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AUD $19.99
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Local release date: 14/09/2017
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Categories: Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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Camping and Tramping in Malaya
Ambrose Rathborne was an Australian mining engineer who moved first to Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) as a coffee planter, and then in the 1880s to the Malay States, where he worked as a planter and entrepreneur. Camping and Tramping in Malaya: Fifteen Years in the Native States of the Malay Peninsula was first published in 1898, and is a lively ......
ISBN-13: 9781909612587 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Imprint: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Ambrose B. Rathborne
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Local release date: 22/06/2015
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Categories: Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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Accounts of China and India
The ninth and tenth centuries witnessed the establishment of a substantial network of maritime trade across the Indian Ocean, providing the real-life background to the Sinbad tales. An exceptional exemplar of Arabic travel writing, Accounts of China and India is a compilation of reports and anecdotes about the lands and peoples of this diverse ......
ISBN-13: 9781479830596 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Abu Zayd al-Sirafi, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
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Local release date: 04/05/2017
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Maritime history [HBTM]Classic travel writing [WTLC]Asia [1F]Indian Ocean [1QSN]c 500 CE to c 1000 CE [3F]

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Inland Voyage
Robert Louis Stevenson was not only a gifted writer, he was also an indefatigable traveller. His thirst for adventure was formed by his boyhood visits to remote Scottish lighthouses, and he spent much of his life fleeing the rigours of cold climates and social orthodoxy. Along the way he travelled with a donkey through the Cevennes, booked passage ......
ISBN-13: 9781909612570 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Imprint: JOHN BEAUFOY PUBLISH
Robert Louis Stevenson
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AUD $18.99
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Local release date: 22/06/2015
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Categories: Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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The Road is Wider Than Long
This special facsimlie of the original book provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of two artists and their journey of discovery in a world that would be soon be transformed and in parts lost forever. Altogether this affecting and intimate publication has an important place in the history of Surrealist literature.
ISBN-13: 9781914298004 (Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS
Imprint: UNICORN PRESS
Roland Penrose
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Local release date: 30/05/2021
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Categories: Other graphic art forms [AFJ]Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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My Journey to Egypt
ISBN-13: 9781783341078 (Paperback)
Publisher: GIBSON SQUARE
Imprint: GIBSON SQUARE
Jean-Francois Champollion, Joyce Tyldesley, Peter A. Clayton, Martin Rynja
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Local release date: 29/01/2020
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Categories: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]Classic travel writing [WTLC]

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Mission to the Volga
The earliest surviving instance of sustained first-person travel narrative in Arabic Mission to the Volga is a pioneering text of peerless historical and literary value. In its pages, we move north on a diplomatic mission from Baghdad to the upper reaches of the Volga River in what is now central Russia. In this colorful documentary from the ......
ISBN-13: 9781479899890 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Tim Severin, James E. Montgomery
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Local release date: 04/05/2017
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Categories: Anthologies (non-poetry) [DQ]Classic travel writing [WTLC]Russia [1DVUA]Middle East [1FB]c 500 CE to c 1000 CE [3F]

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The First Crossing of Greenland
ISBN-13: 9781783340941 (Paperback)
Publisher: GIBSON SQUARE
Imprint: GIBSON SQUARE
Fridtjof Nansen
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Local release date: 26/04/2017
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Categories: European history [HBJD]20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]Maritime history [HBTM]Geographical discovery & exploration [RGR]Classic travel writing [WTLC]Greenland [1MTNG]Arctic Ocean [1QSR]20th century [3JJ]